Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Company Description
🚀 SmartRecruiters transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. We deliver an AI-powered hiring platform built for global scale, automating and optimizing the entire talent acquisition process. More than 4,000 companies, including LinkedIn, McDonald's, VISA, CD Projekt Red, Allegro rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. 
🚀 In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, we are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining AI innovation with the scale and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.
We designed our R&D structure based on the empowered product teams model. It means our teams are responsible for business outcomes and have autonomy in solving problems in the way that “customers love yet work for the business” (yes, we are heavily influenced by this and that).

Job Description
The SmartRecruiters is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II for a fix-term contract (till the end of June 2027). During that time you’ll work on a single goal: improving our reliability posture by advancing observability capabilities, shaping the culture and addressing performance challenges that come with rapidly increasing scale. 
Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost. You may be located anywhere in Poland and work remotely or out of our Cracow office.

You will:
• Improve, automate and grow SmartRecruiters observability and reliability tooling (metrics, logs, traces, alerting)
• Mentor members of the engineering team and act as an advocate for modern SRE practices
• Partner with product engineers working in Java, Node.js, and Python to design, instrument, and operate services for failure, owning SLIs/SLOs and error budgets together
• Create reusable building blocks (dashboards, alerts, libraries and IaC modules) that can be rolled out company‑wide
• Respond to production incidents and client threats, lead remediation, and drive follow‑up improvements
• Document standards, best practices, and policies for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability
• Leading reliability-related initiatives across SmartRecruiters

We want you to:
• Make a difference
• Have a positive, can-do attitude
• Do the right thing, not the "easy" thing
• Partner with our engineering team

Qualifications:
• While not strictly required, we see most of our Senior Engineers II have 7+ years of professional experience
• Working knowledge of SRE and observability industry standards and best practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on‑call)
• Software development experience in JVM stack
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tools and practices, including running and troubleshooting distributed applications
• Deep knowledge of the Linux operating system, with a focus on system hardening and troubleshooting performance issues
• Very good scripting skills (Bash, Golang or Python)
• Strong communication skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written, and the ability to coach and influence other engineers
• Experience managing and troubleshooting database systems, both SQL and NoSQL, is a plus
• Understanding of networking standards, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN and load balancing is a plus

Benefits:
• We support 100% remote work with Wi-Fi reimbursement and an additional stipend for the equipment (the MacBook laptop is provided by us)
• Unlimited vacation days (yes - it's really unlimited)
• Private Medical Care for you and your dependents (Luxmed)
• Wellness Programme (Multisport Card and even more)
• Company-wide shutdowns in August and around Christmas

Additional information
SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.