(Senior) Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/d) - Platform & Agentic Operations

1KOMMA5° is building Europe’s largest virtual power plant ("Heartbeat AI"). As a Senior SRE in our Platform team, you will bridge classic infrastructure with Agentic Engineering, specifically focusing on leveraging AI agents to eliminate developer friction, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and automate the resolution of code review and deployment bottlenecks.

Tech Stack

• Cloud & Infra: GCP (CloudRun, GKE), Terraform, Terramate

• Reliability:  Incident.io, Datadog (OpenTelementry)

• Agentic: Cursor

• CI/CD & DevEx: GitHub Actions, Backstage

• Languages: Python, GoLang, TypeScript

Key Responsibilities Include but not limited to

• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems and processes to ensure high reliability for our customers and meet defined SLOs

• Design, build, and maintain resilient, scalable infrastructure utilizing SRE principles and best practices

• Attend post-incident reviews, detect patterns and contribute to continuous improvement efforts

• Execute performance testing, analyze system bottlenecks, and formulate strategies for capacity planning to ensure our systems meet current and future demands effectively

• Build systems where CI/CD test failures serve as immediate, real-time context for agents, enabling them to analyze logs, trace dependencies, and suggest or apply instant code fixes.

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering

• Strong understanding and practical application of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, methodologies, and best practices

• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python, GoLang or TypeScript

• Practical understanding of integrating LLMs into automated workflows. You know how to feed live system state (like a fresh CI test failure) into an agent as actionable context.

• Prior experience in incident management, post-incident reviews, and implementing improvements to prevent future incidents

• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues systematically and effectively

• Good experience working with a public cloud provider, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a solid understanding of its observability services

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts and collaborate effectively with diverse teams

• Very good knowledge of spoken and written english, german is a plus

• Residency in Germany

Bonus points for:

• Interest in climate tech industry

• Prior experience with IoT applications

• Having worked in a scale up environment at a company of similar size

• You are part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team of people who have proven to make things happen
• With your work, you accelerate the "energy transition" and hence have a direct impact on our climate
• Work with and learn from other super-smart colleagues
• You will enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers
• You will enjoy the best chances of entering full-time in one of Europe’s most thriving scaleups
• You work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin or Munich
• Create a healthy balance alongside your work and enjoy all the benefits of the EGYM Wellpass
• Benefits and discounts are yours with Futurebens
• Whether city bike or e-bike - be flexible with our job bike leasing and do something good for the environment at the same time