(Senior) Site Reliability Engineer (all genders)

You as part of tonies:

As a (Senior) Site Reliability Engineer (all genders) within our IT Systems Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our cloud and bare-metal systems. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining a stable and scalable infrastructure that supports our global operations, allowing us to continue bringing joy and adventure to our listeners around the world.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage our cloud and bare-metal infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance
• Deployment and Automation: Automate deployment processes to ensure consistent and reliable deployment across environments
• Services Optimization: Optimize our AWS and bare-metal systems for cost-effective operation and peak efficiency
• Reliability Engineering: Define and track SLOs and SLIs, implementing policies that balance reliability with ongoing development
• Monitoring and Alerting: Develop and maintain monitoring systems for real-time issue detection and resolution
• Incident Management: Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, ensuring quick and effective resolution of issues
• Collaboration & Documentation: Collaborate with multiple software teams to enhance infrastructure reliability, ensure knowledge transfer and maintain a comprehensive system documentation

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, with proven expertise in implementing SLOs, SLIs, and other best practices from the SRE methodology
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go
• Strong skills in Linux systems administration and scripting
• Experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure, as well as bare-metal infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines; experience with GitLab CI/CD is a plus
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible/Puppet
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to manage and optimize critical systems in challenging environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to ensuring system reliability
• Excellent in communication and collaboration, whether within your team or across departments

Why tonies?

• Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
• Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
• Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
• Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
• Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
• Flexible Working: Equipped with individual equipment, you can work remotely for up to 5 days in consultation with your team - depending on your area of responsibility. And if you're up for a workation, you can work from abroad for up to 4 weeks per year with us.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
• Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
• Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.

Good to know:

As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies®. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sabine Schykowski
Recruiting & Onboarding Partner

About us

tonies® is the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children with more than 7 million Tonieboxes and 88 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes more than 1,100 Tonies figurines in several languages.