Job Description
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:
Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps
(€80K – €190K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus)
About you:
Full-stack SRE/DevOps with experience in server configuration
Expert in Linux, high-traffic systems, real scale
Manage Cloud and bare metal, databases, networking, distributed systems
On-call owner, self-starter, bring end-to-end initiatives, automate
Your mission is to
Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 70M+ users
Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)
Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability
Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable
Your impact
Partner with engineering teams to eliminate bottlenecks and build resilient systems from the ground up
Design intelligent alerting and observability that catches problems before users ever notice
Own incident response end-to-end, on-call, fast resolution, and blameless postmortems that actually prevent recurrence
Harden the delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and GitLab, safer, faster deployments
Your toolkit
Linux, TCP/IP, and distributed systems
Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
Kubernetes, GitLab, CI/CD
Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry
Nice to have: Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, DBA
What makes this role exciting
Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up
Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement
Why Almedia?
Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.
We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.