[Hiring] Junior Site Reliability Engineer @OLX

Role Description

Join one of our Core Tech teams: Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Observability or Engineering Ops as a Junior Site Reliability Engineer!

As part of this platform group, you will support the development and maintenance of the core infrastructure and engineering practices that enable our products and services to thrive. You will have the opportunity to work closely with experienced engineers, deepen your knowledge of cloud environments, distributed systems, and automation, and contribute to building reliable and scalable platforms.

You will be guided as you develop your technical expertise in system scalability, observability, automation, and reliability, while learning how to deliver incremental value, manage dependencies, and navigate ambiguity. If you're passionate about growing your career in Site Reliability Engineering and making an impact, we’d love to hear from you!

What you will be doing:

• Support foundational tasks that ensure scalability, availability, and efficiency of our cloud and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Senior SREs in diagnosing, resolving, and proactively preventing production incidents.
• Automate simple operational tasks and manage configurations using scripting and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Assist in monitoring and maintaining service health by working with observability platforms and dashboards.
• Participate in incremental delivery of tasks, including estimating complexity, managing dependencies, and handling ambiguous requirements with guidance.
• Take part in an on-call rotation to develop incident management skills, focusing on learning and contributing to blameless postmortems.
• Engage in continuous learning, building a growth mindset, and progressively taking more ownership of your tasks and impact.

Qualifications

• A motivated learner with a growth mindset, eager to develop their SRE skills and contribute to building reliable, scalable systems.
• Foundational experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python or Go) and a desire to grow in automation and scripting.
• Basic understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS) and distributed systems concepts.
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Interest in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, focused on learning and applying best practices.
• A team player with the ability to manage tasks reliably, communicate effectively, and maintain clear documentation.
• Enthusiasm about reliability engineering principles, including incident management, monitoring, and service level management.

Requirements

• Recruiter Interview
• Engineering Manager Interview
• Technical Interview

Benefits

• Competitive salary + 10% annual bonus
• Training and conference budget
• Health and life insurance
• Unique opportunity to become a part of an international team of top engineers learning from one another and contributing to the global OLX success
• Working with and impacting all Classifieds websites in Europe, collaborating with European and other International Hubs
• Work in a multicultural and international environment. We currently have 50+ nationalities!
• Remote contract