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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Solarisbank AG
- **Location:** Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €52,500.0 - €75,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Data Centers, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Service Discovery, Software Engineering, Istio, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.xing.com/jobs/frankfurt-main-senior-site-reliability-engineer-156895301

## About the Role

* A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent professional experience.
 * You have spent 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles in a high-growth environment.
 * Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Java, or Go.
 * Expertise in Service Discovery / Service Mesh to manage microservice communications.
 * Experience in the analysis of capacity requirements and address exhaustion before it impacts SLOs.
 * Designing systems that automatically failover across different data centers.
 * Expertise in tools like Chaos Mesh or Gremlin to proactively test system weaknesses.
 * Designing infrastructure with a focus to limit the blast radius of any single failure.
 * Break down high-level architectural goals into small, deliverable tasks.
 * Evaluate third-party tools and act as technical point of contact.
 * Safely rolling out significant platform changes across the entire organization.
 * Understand the unique challenges of the financial sector.
 * Experience in the participation of a 24/7 on-call rotation.
 * Business proficient English (written and verbal). German language is a plus.
 * Curious self-starter who combines openness and creativity with a structured, hands-on mentality.
 * Brings an agile mindset along with the drive to get things done and the self-reflection to keep improving.

## Description

* Responsible for the design of monitoring and alerting standards.
 * Create frameworks that implement key concepts like SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
 * Champion standards for incident response and reliability best practices.
 * Design processes that improve resilience and reduce technical complexity.
 * Implement software and tooling to improve resilience and automate operations.
 * Create generic service and product specific monitoring dashboards.

We'd love to see

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don't care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let's figure together out how you can contribute to our team.


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