Senior Staff Engineer, SRE

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering to drive reliability and operational excellence of the Aiven platform globally. You will work hands‑on with SRE and engineering teams on platform health, incident response and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Define and drive global SRE operating strategy across EMEA, AMER and APAC, aligning reliability goals and 24/7/365 follow‑the‑sun operations.
• Provide technical leadership to multi‑regional SRE teams, setting vision and roadmap for reliability engineering, automation and tooling.
• Improve incident management, on‑call design, escalation frameworks and establish metrics‑driven cadence with KPIs/SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.

Required profile

• Proven senior SRE or infrastructure engineering experience across multiple regions and time zones.
• Track record of defining and executing reliability strategy at scale, including SLIs/SLOs and incident management frameworks.
• Experience in 24/7/365 production environments with follow‑the‑sun models and large‑scale incident response.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Cloud infrastructure
• Automation
• Incident management
• SLIs/SLOs definition and metrics‑driven prioritisation

What we offer

• Equity plan participation
• Hybrid work policy
• Equipment allowance
• Professional Development Plan budget
• Global Employee Assistance Program and holistic wellbeing support
• Global Time Off Commitment and country‑specific benefits