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Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Proton
Backend Developer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Geneva +1
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Proton, founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN, builds privacy-first products such as Proton Mail, VPN, Drive, Pass and Calendar used by millions worldwide. This role is on a small, tool-agnostic team that owns the observability infrastructure (logs, metrics, traces and alerts) behind Proton's services. The team runs open-source stacks across Proton's on-premise data centers and favors simple, solid, iterative solutions.

Stack

AI/MLAnsibleKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

Responsibilities

  • ▹Design, deploy and operate observability pipelines for logs, metrics, traces and alerts across Proton's services using open-source technologies
  • ▹Partner with development and platform teams to ship practical alerting, dashboarding and integration solutions
  • ▹Build reusable templates and tooling that streamline onboarding, incident response and analysis
  • ▹Champion observability best practices across teams and raise the bar for instrumentation
  • ▹Build AI-powered tooling that sharpens detection, analysis and response capabilities
  • ▹Evolve the observability platform iteratively to meet the needs of internal stakeholders

Requirements

  • ▹Extensive experience in an SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering role
  • ▹Comfortable writing Python and/or Go for tooling and automation
  • ▹Hands-on experience operating open-source observability stacks (logs, metrics, traces, alerting)
  • ▹Working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps workflows
  • ▹Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or similar) and solid Linux system administration skills

Nice to have

  • ▹Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
  • ▹Experience running ClickHouse for log and metric storage at scale
  • ▹Interest in or experience with AI/ML tooling

Soft skills

Frank, open communicationProblem-solving mentalityComfort with broad, evolving scope

What we offer

  • ▹Meaningful work answering only to users, not advertisers or investors
  • ▹Base annual gross salary in Paris of 50,000€ to 77,000€, depending on qualifications and experience
  • ▹Stock options from day one
  • ▹Right hardware and software for the job
  • ▹Learning and development opportunities
  • ▹Strong health coverage, retirement options, generous leave and wellness support
  • ▹In-person collaboration across offices in Geneva, Zürich, Barcelona, London and more
  • ▹Lunch and snacks at the office
  • ▹Covered transport (public transport, bike allowance or parking)
  • ▹Flexible working hours

About the company

Proton was founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN on the belief that privacy is a fundamental human right. It runs the world's largest encrypted email service and a suite of privacy tools, is profitable and independent with no VC control, and has 700+ team members across 50+ countries.