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Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Proton· CC - Infrastructure - Platform SRE
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Hybrid (Geneva; Paris)€50k - €77kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing, deploying, and operating Proton's observability infrastructure (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) using open-source stacks in on-premise data centers. Emphasizes iterative improvements, practical alerting/dashboarding, and AI-powered tooling. Office-anchored role with hybrid/work-from-office culture.

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 that engineers actually rely on.
  • Build reusable templates and tooling that streamline onboarding, incident response, and analysis.
  • Champion observability best practices across teams and raise the bar for how Proton instruments its systems.
  • Build AI-powered tooling that sharpens detection, analysis, and response capabilities.
  • Evolve the observability platform iteratively to meet the real needs of internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:SRE/DevOps experiencePythonGoKubernetesGitOpsInfrastructure-as-code
Nice to have:OpenTelemetry

Benefits

  • Work that Matters: millions of people trust Proton with their privacy.
  • Salary Range: Paris - Base Annual Gross 50,000€ to 77,000€; final compensation based on qualifications.
  • Stock Options: ownership opportunities from day one.
  • Technology: hardware and software provided.
  • Learning & Development: growth opportunities and real challenges from day one.
  • Employee Benefits: strong health coverage, retirement options, generous leave, wellness support.
  • Office First: primarily in-office with some flexibility for remote work.
  • Food: lunch and snacks provided.
  • Transport: coverage for public transport, bike allowances, or parking.
  • Flexible Working: set hours that suit you and your team.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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