Engineering Team Lead (Reliability Team)

SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

SmartRecruiters enables Hiring Without Boundaries™ by freeing talent acquisition teams from legacy applicant tracking software. SmartRecruiters’ next-generation platform serves as the hiring operating system for 4,000 customers like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa. Companies with business-critical hiring needs turn to SmartRecruiters for best-of-breed functionality, world-class support, and a robust ecosystem of third-party applications and service providers.

Our customers want to transform their talent operations and processes to meet their evolving business priorities. Through the value of the SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite and professional services, we are positioned to deliver on their needs and ensure they acquire the best talent to achieve business success.

The SmartRecruiters Internal Engineering Team is looking for an Engineering Team Lead to strengthen and lead one of our internal development platform teams. If you are passionate about monitoring tools, automation, and keeping production up and running in a great manner, we have a spot with your name on it! 

In this role, you can expect to spend 60% of the time on hands-on contributions, and 40% on managerial activities. 

You will:

• Collaborate with other teams across the R&D department to pursue highly available and reliable systems
• Improve, automate, and grow SmartRecruiters reliability tools suite
• Refine and drive DevOps culture for the whole organization
• Evangelize other team members, direct reports, and peers to win as one
• Provide technical vision and leadership for the empowered team
• Mentor and coach members of the engineering team

• Experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed web-based systems
• Very good coding skills (eg. Java/Python/Go)
• Proven understanding of SDLC practices
• Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with SRE standards and best practices 
• Passion for supporting team members in their career growth
• Strong communication skills, with a good understanding of English, both verbal and written 
• While not strictly required we see most of our Team Leaders have 5+ years of professional experience

Nice to have: 

• Experience managing database systems, both SQL and No-SQL
• Experience with AWS (or another cloud provider), Kubernetes, IaC tools and practices

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action 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.