Company Description

At Enpal, we are pursuing the dream of building the largest renewable community in Europe. How do we make that happen? Enpal finally simplifies providing solar energy: We rent out solar systems, electricity storage, and wall boxes at an all-inclusive rate, supplemented by a favorable green electricity tariff; all intelligently connected to form an integrated overall solution. True to the motto "digital, decentralized, and 100% renewable", our heart beats both for the rapid development of a company and for combating the greatest challenge of our generation - climate change.

Job Description

We're looking for a talented Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and help us maintain the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems.

As Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the reliability and availability of our production environments. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks, ensure smooth operations, and improve overall system health. Your primary focus will be on ensuring that our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant, while also collaborating with development teams to implement new features and technologies.

We offer speed, agility, and steep career growth. Our vision to make sustainable solar energy available to everyone can only come to live through our customer and product-oriented view, and the cooperation between software development, product management and lean, experiment-driven business development.

Join us to develop your professional skills, take part in the energy revolution, and let us take ownership of the sustainable change we want to see in the world together! We are looking forward to your application.

At Enpal, you would

• design, implement, and maintain the reliability and availability of production environments

• develop and implement monitoring and logging tools to ensure system health and performance

• collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., development, platform, security) to identify and mitigate risks

• ensure that systems are designed for scalability, redundancy, and fault tolerance

• implement automation and scripting tools to simplify system administration tasks

• develop and maintain knowledge of industry-standard technologies and tools

• conduct regular system audits and vulnerability assessments

• collaborate with teams to implement continuous integration and delivery pipelines

• Set up and participate in on-call rotation for production systems

• create and maintain technical documentation for new systems and configurations

Qualifications

We are looking for roughly a 50% fit with for what we ask. The other 50% is a surprise to us, it is the magic you bring to the table and the diversity in which you make us grow.

• you have minimum of 5 years of experience in software development, system administration, or related fields

• you have strong knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems

• you have extensive knowledge of cloud computing with Azure and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/Terragrunt

• you are familiar with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)

• you have experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools

• you have experience with monitoring and logging tools

• you have strong understanding of software reliability engineering principles and practices

• you have excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently

• you have strong communication and collaboration skills

• you have knowledge of security best practices and compliance regulations

• you have experience with continuous integration and delivery pipelines

• Certification in a relevant technology or framework is a plus

Additional Information

• Work in Germany's first green unicorn and actively shape the solar energy revolution.

• The sun shines all over the world - at Enpal you will find a highly motivated and diverse team with more than 65 different nationalities.

• Would you rather keep your pet company at home or your colleagues at the office? Even after the pandemic, we offer you a hybrid working model

• We fulfill every start-up cliché - in our modern office in Berlin-Friedrichshain, you'll find everything your heart desires, from a ping-pong table and yoga corner to a roof terrace and stocked drinks fridges.

• Your kick-start at Enpal - Get to know the company, your team colleagues and our founder Mario on your onboarding day.

• Stay up to date - Whether it's company figures at our monthly all-hands meetings or how a photovoltaic system works at the Lunch & Learn, you'll always know exactly what's going on.

• Energy transition only works together - At Enpal, you can expect a legendary team spirit and unforgettable team events.

• No mistakes, no progress - We live a strong feedback culture and grow with your input, either personally or anonymously via our feedback tool Culture Amp.