Site Reliability Engineer

YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND

The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.

Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe s first TV streaming service. Today, we re the world s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. 3 million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn t changed, even if the world has. We re friendly, international, inclusive and our people say we re reliable and transparent, too. It s why they trust us and believe in what we do.

THE ROLE

At Zattoo we are building the TV platform of the future. To make that possible, we are looking for Site Reliability Engineers (f/m/x) to join our Operations team. As the demand for unicast TV delivery is constantly growing, we are scaling out our custom built delivery infrastructure to serve linear and non-linear video data on a multi Tbps scale. Because we control the whole chain from ingest through encoding/transcoding, to packaging and delivery. There are many exciting areas to work on and to push TV to a new level.

You will play a key role in optimising our systems architecture, monitoring and alerting. You will be working closely together with the core video, core middleware and network and infrastructure teams to ensure maximum quality of our service to our customers. If you have a strong interest in monitoring, scaling out and optimising complex distributed systems, you can have a huge impact on site performance and network optimization at Zattoo.

WHAT YOU LL DO

• Become a valued member of Zattoo s Ops/SRE team and improve our core services
• Increase optimization and automation of our setup in various areas such as monitoring, alerting, performance and profiling
• Develop tools and software for the TOC (TV Operations Centre) to monitor and control our services 24/7
• Analyse and understand Zattoo s core services and explore ways on how to efficiently scale them
• Propose improvements to platforms, infrastructure, tools and processes
• Collaborate, support and consult engineers to write code that performs well and scales
• Advocate security and stability, raise awareness for weak spots and develop plans to mitigate them

WHAT YOU LL BRING

• 2+ years proven experience in a Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps position, ideally operating a complex web based service
• Strong experience in monitoring and alerting preferably working experience with Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience in container management such as Kubernetes, Docker or LXC with and without using cloud providers such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Experience in managing on premise / colocation server infrastructure
• Experience in working with standard DevOps tools, we use Debian, Nginx, Puppet, Jenkins/Github Actions
• Comfortable working with remote colleagues, multidisciplinary teams and external partners
• Fluent verbal and written English language skills
• Bonus: A BS/MS degree in computer science or similar discipline
• Bonus: Basic understanding of programming languages such as Bash, Python, Ruby and/or Go based web frameworks
• Bonus: Good understanding of data stores (ElasticSearch, Scylla, Redis, ClickHouse, MySQL, database replication/failover)
• Bonus: Experience with managing a distributed file system

WHY JOIN US?

At Zattoo, you re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Reward: strong market competitive salary
• Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
• Regulate: trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote working 8 weeks per year

Plus:

• We re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• We re inclusive: Zattooies are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 44 nationalities
• We re healthy: Health checks, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options and more!
• We re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• We re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event

Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer, join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.