Site Reliability Engineer II

SmartRecruiters Inc. REMOTE KRAKÓW 2026-09-09
  • While not strictly required, we see most of our Senior Engineers II have 7+ years of professional experience
  • Working knowledge of SRE and observability industry standards and best practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on‑call)
  • Software development experience in JVM stack
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tools and practices, including running and troubleshooting distributed applications
  • Deep knowledge of the Linux operating system, with a focus on system hardening and troubleshooting performance issues
  • Very good scripting skills (Bash, Golang or Python)
  • Strong communication skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written, and the ability to coach and influence other engineers
  • Experience managing and troubleshooting database systems, both SQL and NoSQL, is a plus
  • Understanding of networking standards, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN and load balancing is a plus

We want you to:

  • Make a difference
  • Have a positive, can-do attitude
  • Do the right thing, not the "easy" thing
  • Partner with our engineering team

Company Description

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.

Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

Job Description

The SmartRecruiters is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II for a fix-term contract (till the end of June 2027). During that time you’ll work on a single goal: improving our reliability posture by advancing observability capabilities, shaping the culture and addressing performance challenges that come with rapidly increasing scale.

Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

,[Improve, automate and grow SmartRecruiters observability and reliability tooling (metrics, logs, traces, alerting), Mentor members of the engineering team and act as an advocate for modern SRE practices, Partner with product engineers working in Java, Node.js, and Python to design, instrument, and operate services for failure, owning SLIs/SLOs and error budgets together, Create reusable building blocks (dashboards, alerts, libraries and IaC modules) that can be rolled out company‑wide, Respond to production incidents and client threats, lead remediation, and drive follow‑up improvements, Document standards, best practices, and policies for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability, Leading reliability-related initiatives across SmartRecruiters] Requirements: Java, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Distributed systems, K8s, SRE, Python, Node.js, Bash, Golang Tools: Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GIT, Agile, Scrum, Kanban. Additionally: Sport subscription, Private healthcare, Small teams, International projects, Company Shutdowns twice a year, Internal mobility, Free coffee, Bike parking, Playroom, Shower, Free parking, In-house trainings, Modern office, Startup atmosphere, No dress code, Family Events, Company Parties, In-house hack days.