Headquarters: Milan
URL: https://chipcolate.com
Job Summary
Chipcolate is hiring a Senior SRE to own the reliability, scalability and performance of our agent-oriented financial platform. You’ll design and automate resilient cloud infrastructure, keep latency low and uptime high, and equip our product team with the tooling they need to ship confidently at scale.
- Salary: €80.000 – €100.000 gross / year
- Location: Remote within ± 4 hours of Central European Time
- Employment type: Full-time, permanent
DISCLAIMER
Any application not matching the requirements will be automatically discarded and you won’t hear back from us. Mind our time, do not apply if you are outside the expected timezone and if you don’t have the required seniorship.
Please input your GitHub profile as portfolio in the application form. The profile image is not required.
Responsibilities
- Architect, provision and maintain a distributed multi-provider cloud infrastructure to meet strict availability and latency.
- Implement long term solutions to support thousands of concurrently executing agents.
- Postgres database performance and reliability, including OLAP application
- Develop scalable observability stacks (Grafana / OpenTelemetry) with actionable SLOs.
- Implement automated reliability measures: blue/green deploys, canary roll-outs, chaos testing and game days.
- Partner with backend teams to profile services, eliminate bottlenecks and design for horizontal scaling.
- Drive cost-efficient capacity planning and security best practices.
Experience & Qualifications
Must-have
- 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or Production Engineering
- Deep knowledge of Linux and containers
- Deep knowledge of Postgres
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Node, Python, Go, or Rust)
- Infrastructure-as-Code mastery (Ansible and Terraform)
- Strong monitoring/alerting chops; you think in RED/USE metrics
Nice-to-have
- Experience with Grafana observability stack
- Experience with event-driven or agent-based architectures
- Experience running multi-region, active-active setups
- Experience with Supabase
- Experience with DuckDB
- Experience managing a Kubernetes cluster at scale
No degree required—show us shipped code, OSS commits, or anything that proves you can build.
Benefits
- Flexible hours & fully remote
- Fast growing environment
- Fun and innovative application domain
- 24 days paid leave + local public holidays
- Competitive salary
- Home-Office Budget
- Company Laptop
- A special benefit discussed during the process
Application Process
Apply with a CV and GitHub profile.
Cultural chat and Technical deep-dive with our CTO (60 min, system-design & live problem-solving).
Offer within 7 working days or final interview.
Ready to make high-stakes infrastructure feel effortless? Apply today—let’s engineer reliability together.
About Us
Chipcolate is an Italian company of hardcore engineers focusing on orchestrating any scaling fleet, from edge devices, to agents, to servers. Historically we worked on embedded systems, web applications and 3D printing. At this time, we are working on scaling a fleet of autonomous agents providing high-throughput financial services. We operate in a quite unstructured and flexible way, that’s the only way to get speed and quality. We are engineering and first principles thinking driven.
- Learn more: chipcolate.com · LinkedIn (@chipcolate) · GitHub (https://github.com/chipcolate)
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/chipcolate-senior-sre
