Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability (x/f/m)
Doctolib
| Company | Doctolib |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Berlin |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 11 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 7 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Your Impact
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Core Reliability & Observability team in Platform Engineering .
Your mission will be to shape Doctolib's observability strategy and ensure our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable at a European scale. You will work in a feature team developing logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting capabilities, contributing directly to supporting 400,000 health professionals and 80 million patients in their daily healthcare journey.
Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.
What you'll do
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Lead the observability strategy across the platform, with an emphasis on building scalable, developer-friendly logging and tracing capabilities
Identify and lead large-scale cross-cutting reliability initiatives, including improvements to our incident detection, response, and postmortem analysis capabilities
Take part in the on-call rotation, and actively contribute to improving our on-call experience by refining alerting, reducing noise, and ensuring actionable telemetry
Who you are
Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.
You'll be a great fit if you:
Have a solid hands-on experience (3y+) on a large-scale production platform
Have proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Have solid understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker and Kubernetes)
Have a strong understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes manifests and ArgoCD for GitOps workflows
Have deep expertise in observability tooling and architecture, such as:
Logging: Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Vector
Tracing: OpenTelemetry or proprietary APMs
Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog, or equivalent
Have proficiency in at least one programming language (Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc.) and a deep understanding of infrastructure as code principles
Have experience with monitoring and observability tools
Like troubleshooting performance issues in complex environments
Are fluent in English
It would be fantastic if you:
Have experience contributing to open-source observability projects
Have worked in a high-growth tech environment
Are passionate about developer experience and platform engineering
Life at Doctolib Tech
Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here .
Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site .
What we offer
A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib
28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)
Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz
Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)
ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Spo