Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an exceptional Site Reliability Engineer who lives and breathes system reliability at Salt Bank – one of the fastest-growing neobanks revolutionizing the Romanian financial services landscape.

🏦 About Us: At Salt Bank, we're not just another fintech company. We're building the future of banking, aiming to serve millions of customers who depend on our platform 24/7/365. Our success hinges on our ability to maintain exceptional service reliability.

🔧 The Role: As our SRE, you'll be at the heart of our operations, ensuring our platform maintains its reputation for rock-solid reliability. This isn't just about keeping the lights on – it's about building and maintaining systems that scale seamlessly and recover automatically.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing pipelines across microservices.
• Define and measure SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Create dashboards and alerts that provide actionable visibility into system health.
• Automate operational tasks and improve deployment reliability through GitOps and IaC.
• Partner with developers to instrument applications and improve performance insights.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of observability standards and reliability practices.

What You Bring

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Dynatrace, or similar).
• Practical knowledge of SRE principles — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, automation.
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go, or equivalent).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, etc.).
• Good grasp of distributed systems, networking, and performance metrics.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AWS services such as EKS, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, DocumentDB, Redis, or MSK.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, FluxCD) and CI/CD automation.
• Experience working with DevOps or cloud platform teams in high-availability environments.