Senior SRE Engineer - Cloud Operations at Qdrant
Germany
<p>Qdrant is a cutting-edge vector database company on a mission to revolutionize how organizations manage and query unstructured data. Our open-source engine and managed cloud solutions power AI-driven search, recommendation, and data discovery at scale. We are a remote-first company, building a global team of passionate engineers to push the boundaries of database infrastructure.</p> <p>As a <strong>Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer on the Cloud Operations team</strong>, you will focus on keeping Qdrant Cloud reliable, observable, and secure as usage and infrastructure complexity grow. Your primary responsibility is <strong>operational excellence</strong>: stability, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.</p> <p>This role is <strong>operations-heavy</strong>, ideal for engineers who thrive in owning reliability and reducing operational risk at scale.</p> <h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Operate and maintain production cloud infrastructure at scale</li> <li>Own Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and deployment pipelines</li> <li>Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility</li> <li>Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions</li> <li>Reduce operational toil through automation and better tooling</li> <li>Improve reliability, security, and performance of production systems</li> <li>Collaborate closely with Platform and Regions & Clusters teams</li> <li>Maintain and evolve runbooks, operational procedures, and alerts</li> <li>Participate in on-call rotations and continuous reliability improvements</li> </ul> <h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2> <p><strong>Must have</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations roles</li> <li>Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production</li> <li>Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure</li> <li>Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure</li> <li>Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and incident management</li> <li>Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling</li> <li>Comfortable owning on-call responsibilities and production incidents</li> <li>Strong operational mindset and clear communication skills</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools</li> <li>Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry</li> <li>Exposure to security, compliance, or hardening initiatives</li> <li>Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go</li> <li>Experience in SaaS, cloud, or data infrastructure environments</li> </ul> <h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2> <ul> <li>Competitive salary, equity, and benefits</li> <li>Fully remote setup with flexible working hours</li> <li>Clear ownership of reliability and operational excellence</li> <li>Opportunity to work on mission-critical customer-facing infrastructure</li> <li>Strong collaboration with platform and engineering teams</li> </ul> <p>If you enjoy keeping complex systems reliable and improving operations through automation and discipline, we’d love to hear from you.</p>
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