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Senior Site Reliability Engineer Values Benefits Jobs Offices Jobs > Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer Permanent Full time €60,500 - €77,000 08005, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Engineering Hello! 👋 We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team in the Platform Domain. Platform Domain 🌟 Our mission is to keep the Factorial application running 24/7, ensure its performance, scalability and security, as well as research improvements to enable Product Engineers to develop new use cases adding value to our customers. The Engineering team at large 💻 At Factorial, you'll be part of a team of 200+ Product Engineers. We look for talented people who are curious, proactive, and have great communication skills. People who are at the forefront of developing tools that help teams become the best versions of themselves. You'll work in a multicultural, English-speaking environment where your technical acumen, creative problem-solving abilities, and passion for user-centric products will directly contribute to our mission of improving HR processes for SMEs worldwide. The Role ✨ We are looking for profiles that have solid experience monitoring and troubleshooting large-scale application deployments on the cloud, ideally including: Terraform or Ansible for IaC, Datadog, Grafana or OpenTelemetry, Using public cloud services like AWS or Azure and Debugging issues in a Kubernetes cluster Managing a large MySQL cluster with HA configuration ⚠️ Please note this is not a backend or frontend Software Engineering role. How We Work 💻 (Barcelona or Madrid Office) At Factorial, we believe the best products are built when people come together, in person to collaborate, challenge ideas, and move fast. That’s why our Engineering Teams follows an office-first, flexible approach . We work on-site several days a week , using that time to connect, align, and innovate as a team. However, we also understand the importance of focus and flexibility, so we support remote work when it makes sense - whether for deep work, personal needs, or just a change of scenery. This balance helps us stay agile, creative, and closely connected, while giving everyone the space to do their best work. Your profile You are a team player : You are comfortable helping your teammates, sharing your knowledge, reviewing their code and asking for reviews of your own. You have a user-centric mindset: You know that the only reason we write code is to help our users to perform their tasks. You are a learner : you want to improve your skills not only in the engineering field but across any other areas. You are an owner : You like proposing new hypotheses and being responsible for building, deploying and validating them. You love understanding : Breaking down complex problems into basic and shareable elements. You are T-shaped : You can tackle tasks in different areas of Infrastructure, with deeper knowledge in one or two. You are a mentor : You love to share your experience and expertise to help others grow. You have roughly 8+ years of experience working as a Software or Systems Engineer and at least 3 years as cloud SRE . You are used to communicating in English in a professional environment. Work ethics At Factorial, we know that building a great product means building a great team. We value some key principles that help us thrive together. Radical (and Passionate) Candor : We're excited about creating great products and advancing our mission. This means being proactive, obsessing about quality, and experimenting. We tell our managers and peers things we think we cannot say, practicing radical candor to drive innovation and improvement. Effective Communication : Clear communication, especially in writing, is crucial. We communicate openly, build narratives, and aren't afraid to debate ideas. If we can't explain something clearly, we seek to understand more deeply until we can. And remember, English is our vehicular language, so you need to be comfortable with it! Product Vision : We understand our users' needs and actively engage with them. We constantly look for business opportunities, always asking "What can be next for Factorial?" Reliability and Accountability : We deliver on our commitments while maintaining high quality. We feel accountable for the culture and make others feel accountable too. When we see something broken, we stand up to fix it, feeling responsible for all of Factorial. Problem-Solving : We don't limit ourselves to our nominal job definition. We bring, execute, and later communicate solutions, seeking approval only for decisions that would be hard to reverse. Teamwork Ease : We collaborate well, adapt easily, and are open to feedback. We convince or get convinced, asking the same from everyone. If an initiative comes top-down, we debate it until we fully buy-in, then champion it to our teams. Fighting Complacency : We challenge the status quo and fight complacency with our whole hearts. We're vocal when something is going wrong, seeing it as an opportunity for a better world. Having Fun : While our work is serious, we trust our gut when we have a 10x motivation to try something new. We jump on opportunities for innovation, involving as many people as possible. At Factorial we don't evaluate you by the years of experience you have, we evaluate your knowledge and skills . How? We have a Career Path with a rubric framework where we define what is expected for each experience level and skill. This framework allows you to know at which level you're right now and what you need to keep growing. As we love transparency , our Career Path includes the salaries for each level and we share it during the first interview to make sure we're aligned. For this senior-level position, the annual gross salary is between 60,500 and 70,000€ . This includes a base salary of 55,000€ and a variable pay of up to 7,000€ annually (paid quarterly) , depending on the company's goals. Your daily life with us You’ll start with a 2 weeks onboarding period, where you will: Learn about Factorial: our product, our team, our clients Pair with each member of the team at least once, to see their current initiatives Solve low-stake bug tickets or quick wins Commit early and often thanks to our preprod and demo environments Be fully integrated in the team’s rituals from day 1 You will be a product-centric engineer, taking ownership of big initiatives, and being interested in the outcome, not just the output. About the outcome, you’ll also work with your team members to establish goals and plan a quarterly roadmap , putting special attention to the technical needs of our domain. You will review code, and get feedback on your own code. You will learn from the entire team , both on technical topics (performance, architecture…) and core skills, in an environment driven by engineering quality. You will share your knowledge , through the RFCs you write, pairing sessions, our mentoring programme or the occasional appearance in the monthly Tech All Hands. About us 🚀 At Factorial, we’re building the leading business management software for companies of all sizes. Our platform centralizes key workflows across HR, finance, and operations, freeing teams from manual processes so they can focus on what really matters: leading, growing, and taking care of their people.With over 1,200 employees across 7 markets, we serve 700,000+ users and are one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS companies, backed by top-tier investors and proudly headquartered in Barcelona.We believe in bold goals, radical ownership, and inclusive collaboration. If you're excited to shape the future of business management technology, we’d love to meet you. Our Values 🫀 We own it : We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions, not excuses. We learn and teach : We're dedicated to learning something new every day and, above all, share it. We partner : Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other. We grow fast : We act fast. We think that the worst mistake is not learning from them. We believe in diverse talent: We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strongly encourage people of diverse experiences and identities to apply. We believe in inclusion: We are committed to equal opportunities and actively promote workplace inclusion of people with disabilities. If you would like to learn more about our inclusive recruitment processes, you are welcome to indicate so optionally and we will share additional information with you. Wanna learn more about us? Check our website ! Perks of being part of our team 💆 We care about people and we also offer a lot of benefits for employees: High growth, multicultural and friendly environment 🫱🏽🫲🏿 Alan private health insurance 🩺 Healthy life with Wellhub (Gyms, pools, outdoor classes) 🕺🏻 Save expenses with Cobee💰 Language classes 👩🏻🏫 Breakfast in the office and organic fruit 🍏 Nora discounts 🍱 Free caffeine and theine ☕ Pet Friendly 🐕 The hiring process 🏋️ If you apply, here’s what to expect: A first conversation with our People Business Partner . It will be about comparing our expectations and making sure we match on a human level. A second conversation with the Team’s Engineering Manager . Similarly to the first one, this is about making sure you are a fit and can work together. Technical Interview with our Factorial engineers. We'll provide an incident situation and we expect you to guide us through it like you normally would. One last coffee-chat with our VP of Engineering , where you can get all the answers about Factorial’s culture, business vision, or anything else that interests you. And that’s it! Feel free to request any other conversation you want, with team members or to address specific concerns at any time during the process. The whole process is remote, using videoconferencing tools! Permanent Full time €60,500 - €77,000 08005, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Engineering Apply now Apply now Privacy policy | Powered by Factorial Build my own jobs page FACTORIAL uses cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you've provided to them or that they've collected from your use of their services. 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