Senior SRE

Our story:

Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.

Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix, Steuerbot and TaxScouts, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016

Your challenge:

As our Senior Cloud/SRE Engineer, you'll have the freedom to work from home or from our modern offices. You'll be responsible for creating and developing a reliability framework for our company. You'll have direct impact on Cloud usage efficiency, driving a strong observability framework. There is also opportunity to work closely with engineering teams to collaborate on the architecture of our platform, striving for high quality, stability, scalability and efficiency.

Your team:

The Platform team is composed of software engineers with a passion for internal tooling. You will be part of a talented multidisciplinary infrastructure platform  team working with the latest technologies. You will own the cloud infrastructure of our product, and be responsible for designing, deploying, securing and monitoring the environments for all our services and tools.

Your responsibilities and decisions:

•   Work on the Cloud/SRE team that empowers developers to build reliability into our applications, backend services and data processing tools.

• Develop software that enables us to ship products and updates to customers fast, constantly, and reliably.

• Work closely with our product teams to support them with infrastructure, observability, CI/CD topics and the like, as well as, develop tools with them that can improve the developer experience and shorten delivery cycles.

• Mentor team members and developers, create a culture of high awareness for infrastructure and reliability practices.

• Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely support during critical incidents and assist colleagues in resolving urgent issues.

• Drive strategic improvements in core areas of our platform and product engineering, acting as a catalyst for innovation and enhancement.

Your profile:

•  3+ years of experience managing public cloud platforms: GCP (preferred), Azure or AWS with IaC best practices.

• 2+ years of experience running production systems in a micro-services architecture using Kubernetes (GKE preferred).

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices and helping team introduce them into their outcomes.

• Experience with cloud native observability practices (logging/monitoring/tracing/alerting) and tools like Prometheus, Grafana, etc.

• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform(-cdk), cdk8s, etc.

• Previous experience deploying maintainable and scalable distributed systems based on reliable and fault-tolerant services.

• Proficient with at least one of the following programming languages: Go (preferred) or TypeScript.

• Experience with CI/CD solutions like Github Actions (preferred), GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCi, etc.

• Experience scripting with Bash and operating Linux based servers.

• Exposure to on-call rotation.

• Good knowledge and experience with SDLC methodologies, with emphasis on Scrum based Agile software development.

Bonus Points

• Experience managing MySQL and PostgreSQL.

• Experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux.

• Experience with MacOS based CI/CD runners for iOS apps.

• Experience in DevSecOps tooling.

• Experience with Zero Trust networking tools like Tailscale, GCP IAP etc.

• Contributions to open source projects.

• You are a diversity champion

Why Taxfix?

• A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.

• Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.

• A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like.

• Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.

• Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it.

• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.

• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.

• Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal tech meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible.

• Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.

• Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.

Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture.

At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves.

Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously.