Site Reliability Engineer
Keep the ledger available on the three days a month when every customer is closing at once.
Amsterdam or Lisbon · Hybrid, three days in office · Full-time
Salary band · published
€70,000 – €88,000
EUR per year · Senior · IC4
Role at a glance
- Team
- Platform
- Reports to
- Tomas Ekdahl, Co-founder & CTO
- Level
- Senior · IC4
- Location
- Amsterdam or Lisbon, three days a week in the office
- Band
- €70,000 – €88,000 EUR per year
- Equity
- Options in the offer, four-year schedule
- Start
- From October 2026
About the role
Our load is not flat. Twenty-four days a month the system is quiet, and then two and a half thousand finance teams close their books inside the same seventy-two hours. Capacity, backpressure and the blast radius of any one bad deploy are therefore the whole discipline here rather than a background concern.
You would own how Finly runs: the deploy path, the observability that makes an incident legible in the first ninety seconds, and the boring guarantees underneath the ledger — backups that have actually been restored, and a failover somebody has rehearsed.
What you'll do
- Own the deploy pipeline and keep a rollback under five minutes at any hour.
- Build the observability an on-call engineer needs to answer "what changed" without reading code.
- Plan for month-end load rather than average load, and prove the headroom before it is needed.
- Run restore drills and failover rehearsals, and write up what broke in them.
- Share the platform pager and lead the review after anything customer-visible.
What you'll bring
- Four or more years keeping a production system available for people who notice when it is not.
- Fluency with containers, infrastructure as code and at least one major cloud.
- Real experience of a database under pressure — connection limits, slow queries, and locks.
- The instinct to automate the thing you have now done twice by hand.
- Enough written English to run an incident review that people outside engineering can follow.
Nice to have
- Worked somewhere with a regulated audit trail, and know what that costs an ops team.
- Kubernetes, Terraform or Postgres at a size where the defaults stopped working.
- Have deleted more alerts than you added.
How we hire
Four steps, and a decision either way.
The same four for every role.No take-home that eats a weekend, and no round that exists to see whether you will put up with another round.
- Intro
A thirty-minute call
With the hiring manager, never a recruiter. You ask about the work, we ask what you have actually owned.
Same week you apply
- Craft
One piece of real work
A ninety-minute exercise taken from our own backlog — paid at your day rate if you would rather it were.
90 minutes, paid
- Team
Meet the three people
The ones you would sit beside, including whoever would review your code or sign off your ledger.
Two hours, one day
- Offer
A yes or a reason
A yes carries the band and the start date. A no carries why. Nobody is left to work it out from silence.
Inside two weeks
Benefits
Eight things you get on day one.
The same eight in Amsterdam and Lisbon.Nothing here is discretionary and nothing is a perk you have to ask twice for.
- Salary band, published
- Every advert carries its range. The same band in both cities, adjusted only for local tax.
- Equity in every offer
- Options on a four-year schedule with a one-year cliff, and ten years to exercise them.
- Three days in, two out
- Tuesday to Thursday in the office. Nobody schedules a meeting on the other two.
- Thirty days off
- Plus public holidays where you work, and the week between Christmas and New Year.
- Pension and health cover
- Employer pension contribution and full health insurance in both the Netherlands and Portugal.
- €2,000 a year to learn
- Conferences, courses and books. The budget renews each January and needs no approval under €500.
- Twenty weeks parental leave
- Fully paid, whichever parent you are, with a phased return across the month after it.
- A month in the other city
- Flights and a flat covered, once a year, in whichever office is not your own.
Apply
Send it and we will read it.
A CV or a link is enough —no cover letter, no form with fourteen fields.Every application gets a reply from the hiring manager, including the ones that are a no.