Remote Site Reliability Engineer

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🌍 Remote Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Company: Tinybird
Location: Remote (Global)
Salary: €62,000 – €109,000/year + stock options
Job Type: Full-time | Permanent
Category: DevOps, Infrastructure, SRE, Cloud Engineering
Experience Level: Mid to Senior

🐦 About Tinybird

Tinybird empowers developers and data teams to build real-time data pipelines and publish low-latency APIs using just pure SQL—turning raw data into fast, accessible products in minutes, not hours.

With Tinybird, data ingestion at scale becomes effortless, and developers can shape and query data using tools they already know. The result? Lightning-fast, scalable APIs that fuel powerful data-driven applications.

🛠 What You’ll Do

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Tinybird, you’ll be central to keeping our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow.

You’ll collaborate across engineering, product, and operations to:

  • Architect and scale our distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

  • Ensure high availability and elasticity of our platform as customer demand increases.

  • Work on observability—from low-level resource usage to overall platform health using Grafana, Loki, and Mimir.

  • Participate in the on-call rotation, gaining insight into real-world production issues.

  • Automate customer account upgrades, eliminating manual steps and enabling dynamic resource provisioning.

  • Collaborate with the backend team to improve infrastructure usage and integration with ClickHouse, our main datastore.

  • Improve our disaster recovery tooling and help design a more resilient global platform.

🧰 Tech Stack

You’ll work with technologies like:

🎯 What We’re Looking For

We’re hiring someone who brings deep experience designing, running, and scaling cloud-native architectures. Ideal candidates will have:

✅ Proven background in:

  • Distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and disaster recovery

  • Cloud environments and automated infrastructure provisioning

  • Writing production-grade Python or C++ code

✅ Mindset and traits:

  • Obsessed with reliability and performance

  • Bias for action and iteration

  • Empathetic communicator, especially in asynchronous settings

  • Comfortable debugging across the stack—from network to application

  • System thinker: considers edge cases, trade-offs, and failsafes

  • Willing to own problems and fix what’s broken

✅ Bonus:

  • Experience with ClickHouse or rolling out scalable data storage systems

  • Hands-on use of OpenResty, Redis, Terraform, or Ansible

💼 Salary & Benefits

💸 Salary Range: €62,000 – €109,000/year
📈 Equity: Stock options included
🏖️ Time Off:

  • 22 vacation days per year

  • Plus your birthday off

  • All public holidays in your region

🏥 Health & Flexibility:

  • Comprehensive health benefits

  • Work remotely from anywhere

  • €2,400 home office setup allowance

  • Optional visits to our offices in Madrid or New York City

🌐 How We Work

  • Remote-first: Tinybird is a fully remote team across the globe.

  • Transparency-first: Everyone is in the loop—no information silos.

  • Impact-focused: As an early team member, your work will directly shape our future.

  • Async-friendly: We default to asynchronous communication and documentation.

📢 Check out our blog or follow us on LinkedIn for a closer look at our work and culture.

❓ FAQs

🔧 Do I need ClickHouse experience?

It’s not required, but it’s a big plus. We’re happy to help you ramp up quickly.

🌍 Can I work from anywhere?

Yes! This is a fully remote position. Our team spans time zones, though overlap with Europe is ideal.

⏱ What’s the on-call schedule like?

You’ll join a rotating on-call team. We aim to keep it manageable and well-documented.

📈 What is the interview process?

  1. Application review

  2. Technical conversation

  3. Practical assessment (code or system design challenge)

  4. Team interviews (with engineers and founders)

  5. Offer and onboarding

💡 Interview Tips for Tinybird’s SRE Role

To prepare and stand out:

1. Know the Stack

Read up on:

  • ClickHouse internals

  • Python + C++ performance optimization

  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible

2. Showcase Real-World Troubleshooting

Be ready to explain how you’ve diagnosed and resolved:

  • Latency or reliability issues

  • Failed deployments or infrastructure outages

3. Think at Scale

Talk about past work where you:

  • Designed systems for growth

  • Automated complex infrastructure workflows

  • Implemented observability and monitoring from scratch

4. Own Your Impact

Tinybird values builders—people who spot inefficiencies and take initiative to improve them. Highlight stories that reflect this.

🚀 Ready to Apply?

If you’re ready to design scalable systems and shape the future of real-time data, Tinybird is the place for you.

👉 Apply now to become a key part of our growing platform team.
Let’s make data fly.

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