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Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Founding) - Talonic
Location: Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Source: Hacker News
Contact: jobs@talonic.ai
About the Role
Talonic is looking for our first dedicated Staff Site Reliability Engineer. We specialize in enterprise document ingestion—capturing a document once into a canonical field registry and projecting it to any schema without re-extraction.
As the founding SRE, you will be responsible for building our reliability culture from the ground up. We are looking for someone to implement SLOs, establish an error-budget policy that is actually honored, build observability worth paging on, conduct post-mortems that drive architectural change, and create a deployment process that nobody dreads. Our reliability target is 99.9%.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS
- Infrastructure: Docker, Railway (willingness to learn Railway is fine if you haven't used it)
- Workflow: We ship with Claude Code day-to-day.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: €80,000 – €90,000
- Equity: VSOP included
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain SLOs and error-budget policies.
- Build and maintain robust observability and monitoring systems.
- Lead post-mortem processes to improve architectural resilience.
- Manage deployment pipelines to ensure stability and developer confidence.
- Ensure reliability and audit compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001/42001, HIPAA).
Hiring Process
- Founder Chat: Be prepared to discuss a Sev1 incident you have owned.
- Paid Work Day: Build something real with the team.
- Team Fit Interview.
- References.