Senior Site Reliability Data Engineer

For over 31,000 growing businesses and HR teams seeking a comprehensive, all-in-one HR suite, Workable emerges as the premier solution. We uniquely combine the world’s most widely adopted Applicant Tracking System (Workable Recruiting) with a full-spectrum employee management system (Workable HR). At Workable, we empower companies to focus on what truly matters: hiring the right people and fostering their growth. While we take HR seriously, we maintain a lighthearted and collaborative culture. At Workable, you’ll find smart people who have fun, learn, innovate, and help others do the same. We respect everyone, we hire the best, and make sure every experience is special.

As a Senior Site Reliability Data Engineer based in Athens, Greece, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Workable's data and cloud infrastructure. This is a high-impact position where your expertise will directly influence the operational excellence and growth of our data platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and maintain core data engineering infrastructure including ETL/ELT pipelines, Apache Spark workloads, and data warehouse systems.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and performance of data infrastructure and pipelines with deep operational ownership.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable reliability tooling and automation to streamline deployment, monitoring, and incident response across distributed services.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Partner cross-functionally with developers and analysts to design, release, and troubleshoot production systems; provide data engineering expertise.
• Lead cross-functional projects with development teams to improve system reliability, automate capacity planning, and enforce SRE best practices.
• Develop and maintain centralized observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting pipelines; continuously improve incident detection and response workflows.
• Own observability for data pipelines (freshness, completeness, latency, error rates) and ensure SLOs are met.
• Plan platform growth and manage capacity for the data platform and related infrastructure.
• Operate, deploy, and monitor data platform components and broader cloud services from development through production.
• Develop tools and automation to simplify data operations and make deployments more robust and self-service.
• Collaborate with peer SREs to roll out production changes and mitigate data/infrastructure incidents.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent proven background

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience including programming
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills for large-scale distributed data systems
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing frameworks
• Experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale using tools such as Airflow or dbt
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake)
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP or AWS)
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform or Ansible)
• Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, and observability frameworks (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
• Excellent written communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Production experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
• Experience with data quality and data observability tooling
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Scala
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems
• Ownership-driven and proactive mindset
• Ability to work independently and deliver projects on time

Benefits

Our employees enjoy benefits that make them more productive and contribute directly to the development of their professional skills. We want to be able to attract the best of the best and make sure they keep getting better. On top of an exciting, vibrant, and intellectually challenging environment, we are offering:

• 💼 Comprehensive Health Coverage: A robust health insurance plan that includes coverage for your dependents.
• 🏠 Flexible Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds with a hybrid setup—two days working from home and three in the office.
• 🖥️ Top-Tier Tools: Apple gear and access to the latest productivity tools to help you excel.
• 📱 Stay Connected: A mobile data plan to keep you online wherever you are.
• 🍴 Delicious Perks: Fresh, tasty food at the office to fuel your productivity.
• ✈️ Relocation Bonus: To help you settle in smoothly in Athens.

Workable is most decidedly an equal-opportunity employer. We want applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to color, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.