Engineering Team Leader (Site Reliability Engineering)

We are building XTB – a global investment company offering innovative technological solutions that allow clients to effectively manage their finances using the intuitive XTB app with over one million users worldwide. We are a certified Great Place to Work company.

• Several years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps managing high-scale, distributed environments.
• Proven leadership experience in a formal management role leading and developing SRE or DevOps engineering teams.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure systems on Azure, Kubernetes, and on-premise.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end reliability strategies and manage large-scale technical projects from design to production.
• Strong skills in Python for automation and tooling.
• Expertise in managing Kubernetes and configuration management using Ansible.
• Proficiency with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, ELK, Tempo, and Thanos.
• Experience applying AI/ML for AIOps such as anomaly detection and log analysis.

Nice to have:

• Experience with commercial APM platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic) and chaos engineering tools.
• Knowledge of cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

Leadership & Management:

• Break down complex projects into actionable tasks and drive incremental value.
• Mentor and support the professional growth of team members.
• Facilitate workshops, build technical community, and resolve conflicts effectively.
• Drive operational excellence and reliability culture; lead incident management and champion post-mortems.
• Manage technical debt proactively and align team output with organizational goals.

Core Responsibilities:

• Shape and grow a high-performing Site Reliability Engineering team fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Define and drive the SRE platform strategy in collaboration with infrastructure and development teams.
• Oversee organization-wide 24/7 on-call and incident management processes, managing incident tooling, procedures, compliance, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track measurable objectives (KPIs) for team performance and operational health.
• Oversee the design, development, and evolution of the organization's observability ecosystem including standardized telemetry, structured logging, distributed tracing, and intelligent sampling.