Site Reliability Engineer
Summary
Site Reliability Engineer designing and operating sovereign cloud platform services (messaging, KMS, DNS, secrets) for STACKIT, Schwarz Digits' European cloud. Day to day: building automation with Go, Kubernetes, and IaC, meeting SLOs, running chaos engineering tests, and leading post-mortems. Based in Barcelona on a hybrid model.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- You have a strong passion for Site Reliability Engineering, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and full automation.
- You bring solid experience with Go, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and automating production environments.
- You are familiar with SRE concepts such as Error Budgets, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and Chaos Engineering methods.
- You understand the operational requirements of complex platform services (i.e. PubSub, KMS, Secrets Manager, DNS, MailOut) and know how to make them highly available and reliable.
- You enjoy exploring new technologies (e.g., OpenTelemetry) and enthusiastically share your knowledge with the community and team.
- You look beyond dashboards to understand the underlying data structures and how to optimize them for high-cardinality environments.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
A modern, well-equipped workplace awaits you at Plaza Catalunya — right in the heart of Barcelona.
As part of our commitment to a positive and supportive work environment, our company offers a range of attractive additional benefits. These include restaurant vouchers, transportation benefits, health insurance, and fitness vouchers. Through our discount platform, you can also enjoy monthly discounts and benefits in a wide variety of categories, from services to clothing to accommodation.
Working closely with international departments, we develop customer-oriented solutions in flexible, small teams.
Our employees are very important to us. You will become part of an appreciative and open corporate culture with flat hierarchies.
We offer you diverse and exciting career opportunities in a dynamic work environment that stands for development and progress.
We believe in giving our employees the flexibility they need to do their best work. Our most popular model is the hybrid model, which gives employees the option to work remotely up to 12 days per month. In-office time is focused on collaboration.
The role
What you'll do
- You design and operate the one or the other sovereign cloud services with focus on pure excellence.
- You ensure the reliability, performance, and fault tolerance of the messaging infrastructure by implementing robust disaster recovery and failover strategies and tune operating system configurations for low-latency delivery.
- You are on the forefront of setting standards which allow our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to be continuously met, ensuring system stability.
- You define best practices for application developers and build a self-service platform that makes it easy for internal teams to independently configure their integrations.
- You conduct regular Chaos Engineering tests and incident response simulations to detect vulnerabilities early and guarantee resilient production services.
- You lead structured post-mortems and root cause analyses for production incidents and implement sustainable corrective measures.
About Schwarz Digits
Schwarz Digits is the digital and technology arm of the Schwarz Group, one of the world's largest retail groups, which includes Lidl and Kaufland. The company provides cloud services (STACKIT), cybersecurity solutions, and digital products to internal and external clients, with a strong focus on data sovereignty and European cloud infrastructure. With its headquarters in Neckarsulm, Germany, Schwarz Digits operates across Europe and employs thousands of professionals in engineering, data, and security roles.
In Spain, Schwarz Digits has a significant presence, particularly in Barcelona, where it runs a technology hub and a Security Operations Center (SOC). The company is actively hiring international talent for roles in cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and software development, offering a multicultural work environment and the opportunity to work on large-scale European cloud and security projects. For international professionals, Schwarz Digits provides a chance to join a growing tech organization within a major corporate group, with competitive benefits and a focus on innovation.
- Industry
- Cloud and Cybersecurity
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 1,000–5,000
- Headquarters
- Neckarsulm, Germany
- In Spain
- Barcelona
Good to know if you are moving
- Schwarz Digits is part of the Schwarz Group, which owns Lidl and Kaufland, providing financial stability and a strong corporate backing.
- The company operates a major cybersecurity and cloud hub in Barcelona, Spain, with many roles based there.
- STACKIT is a European cloud platform designed to meet strict data privacy and sovereignty requirements, offering a unique value proposition.
- The company supports hybrid work models and offers relocation support for international hires.
- Working language is primarily English, making it accessible for international professionals.
In their own words
About the company & team
Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.
Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.