Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform. Solaris’ full German banking license and proprietary modular B2B tech stack empowers its partners – from SMEs to large, multinational, non-financial companies – to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services, providing seamless experiences to customers across all industries. Founded in 2016, Solaris pioneered the Banking-as-a-Service market with an unparalleled combination of tech and banking. Solaris is headquartered in Berlin and employs 300 people in Europe.
Your Role- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Home office budget.
- Learning & development budget of €1000 per year and a transparent growth framework to support your career goals.
- Competitive salary and a variable remuneration program.
- Monthly meal allowance.
- Deutschland ticket subsidy.
- 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years with Solaris.
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year.
While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.
At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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