Our client is a large international retail group with an in-house engineering organisation, technology built internally, not outsourced. Teams own what they design and run, end to end, on platforms that serve the group's markets and brands across Europe.
The Cluj engineering hub is part of a wider international ecosystem, and the local capability continues to grow.
This is a hands-on SRE role inside a product engineering environment. You will work directly with software engineering squads that build and own their services in production, helping them improve how those services are designed, observed and operated.
The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure and production reliability. You will have hands-on ownership around SLOs, observability, incident response, automation and resilience, while also influencing engineering teams and contributing to shared reliability practices across the organisation. You will collaborate closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Incident Management, Security, Network and Observability teams.
This is not a role focused on maintaining infrastructure or CI/CD pipelines. The focus is on engineering reliability into digital products used by customers at scale.
You have strong hands-on experience with production systems and understand that Site Reliability Engineering goes beyond infrastructure automation. Specifically, you bring experience with:
Just as importantly, you are comfortable working directly with software engineers, challenging existing practices where needed, and communicating reliability topics clearly across teams.
Experience defining or owning SLOs for production services, designing alerting around customer impact, taking an active role in major incident management, or introducing SRE practices across multiple engineering teams would be especially valuable. You do not need to tick every technology box ,strong SRE fundamentals and evidence that you have improved the reliability of real production systems matter more than any single tool.
Our client offers a competitive package and room to grow:
You would join an international product engineering organisation where teams build, own and operate their own digital products, and where reliability is treated as an engineering discipline, with real customer impact and the scope to shape SRE practices across a large-scale environment.
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