Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Upvest provides regulated, API-first investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers, and wealth managers across Europe and the UK. Its platform supports brokerage, settlement, custody, fractional investing, portfolios, savings plans, and investment operations.
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About Upvest GmbH
Upvest is a regulated investment infrastructure company offering a cloud-native Investment API for brokerage, settlement, custody, and real-time investment functionality. It also provides middle- and back-office business process outsourcing, regulatory licences, fractional securities, portfolios, savings plans, and operating models for financial institutions launching or scaling investment and pension products.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will improve how systems are built, operated, and recovered. You will establish reliability standards, automate repetitive work, strengthen incident management and observability, and help engineers design resilient services. You will develop disaster-preparedness practices, validate systems under adverse conditions, and mentor engineers on SRE practices.
Requirements
- Experience in high-stakes environments such as fintech, payments, banking, trading, or mission-critical SaaS
- Hands-on expertise with SLOs, incident management, observability, automation, and toil reduction
- Deep understanding of resilience architecture and graceful failure design
- Communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to mentor engineers, deliver projects end to end, and set technical direction
Responsibilities
- Transform incident response and learning through runbooks and post-mortem practices
- Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Eliminate toil by building automation tools
- Establish resilient-service patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheading, graceful degradation, and rate limiting
- Validate system behavior under synthetic load and adversarial conditions
- Design chaos experiments, redundancy patterns, and failover strategies
- Embed SRE practices into product engineering workflows
- Mentor engineers and set technical direction for reliability
Benefits
- €20,000 per year for AI tools
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Remote work abroad for up to 183 days per year
- One-month fully paid sabbatical after every four years
- Personal development budget
- Flexible hybrid work from hubs in Berlin, London, or Tallinn or remotely across Europe depending on the role
- Employee equity program
- Company-wide events, dinners, offsites, and holiday party
- Employee resource groups
