site reliability engineer in observability platforms

Palark is a DevOps and SRE service provider that helps organizations of all sizes create, deploy, and operate software quickly, efficiently, and securely. The company is headquartered in Germany, actively engages with the Cloud Native community, and contributes to Open Source projects, including Kubernetes.

• Build, operate, and continuously improve the company's observability platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability;
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring solutions for internal infrastructure, external services, and network connectivity;
• Develop and operate monitoring, alerting, and health checks for VPN infrastructure and critical platform services;
• Migrate and optimize observability clusters and infrastructure to support evolving architecture and business needs;
• Integrate new telemetry and logging data sources into the observability platform, such as shipping CloudTrail logs into Quickwit;
• Maintain and enhance the observability ecosystem, including operators, exporters, proxies, MCP servers, and AI-powered tooling;
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities of tracing, metrics, logging, and event processing pipelines;
• Troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive continuous improvements to platform performance while operating and maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

• 5+ Years of hands-on experience as an Observability Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Software Engineer;
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting observability platforms for distributed systems;
• Good knowledge of observability technologies, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and monitoring;
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, including Helm and Kubernetes deployment workflows;
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure, including CloudTrail and cloud networking;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform;
• Good understanding of networking concepts, VPNs, proxies, and distributed systems;
• Intermediate proficiency in Go, with experience maintaining and extending internal tools and services;
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence;
• Nice to have: Experience with AI-assisted developer and operations tooling, including MCP servers, AI assistants, and automation.

• Annual income gross: €72.000-96.000;
• Remote work with official employment in EU countries;
• 1-Year contract with the possibility of extension.