Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description

Lead and coordinate team-level projects to improve system reliability across a massive distributed architecture. Drive the design and implementation of complex reliability solutions and internal platforms, including incident response automation with an AI agent, and run major outages as a senior Incident Commander with blameless post-mortems. Build and scale self-service performance testing and automated resiliency platforms (fault injection and data center failover experiments) while owning reliability, managing technical debt, and automating infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate reliability improvement projects across a distributed microservices environment

• Design and implement reliability platforms and tools

• Build an AI agent to enhance incident response workflows

• Serve as Incident Commander during major outages and lead blameless post-mortems

• Develop and scale self-service performance testing with real-time observability

• Build automated resiliency via continuous fault injection and lead failover experiments

• Own team systems reliability, manage technical debt, and automate infrastructure

• Mentor engineers and set code quality standards

• Influence architecture decisions and team communication on complex problems

Requirements

• Solid engineering background with deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture

• Proficient in at least one of: Kotlin, Java, Python, Go

• Hands-on advanced container/orchestration experience: Kubernetes and Docker, plus networking and service mesh concepts

• Hands-on experience with Chaos Engineering (fault injection, failure scenarios)

• Practical knowledge of Gatling or similar performance testing tools is a plus

• Deep experience with monitoring/observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK

• Ability to identify single points of failure and act as Incident Commander

• Strong practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Ownership mindset, data-driven approach, and mentoring experience

Benefits

• Flexible working hours in a hybrid model (4/1), with occasional remote work (30 days)

• Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu restricted stock units

• Annual bonus based on individual performance and company results

• Well-located offices with excellent work tools

• MacBook Pro or Dell equivalent with Windows and accessories

• Fringe benefits via a cafeteria plan (medical, sports/lunch packages, insurance, vouchers)

• English classes related to job responsibilities

• Training budget, inter-team opportunities, hackathons, internal learning platform

• Additional day off for volunteering

• Social events (e.g., Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code)