About this role
Do you get a thrill from building infrastructure that millions of people rely on every single day? Then you’ll feel right at home at Funda. At a platform of our scale, every tweak matters – and as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you play a key role in keeping everything running smoothly. With 99.99% uptime we’re more reliable than many banks, and that’s only possible with a team that stays curious, sharp and unafraid to push boundaries. Love technical puzzles and making systems smarter? Then we’d love to meet you.
- Your job in a nutshell As an SRE at Funda, you’ll help shape the infrastructure behind one of the most-visited websites in the Netherlands.
- You build, innovate and keep things stable while switching between cloud, pipelines, monitoring and supporting our development teams.
- Expect lots of variety, plenty of ownership and space to dive deep into complex systems.
- Read also: Maurits explains how we use remote Helm charts for deployments Your responsibilities Optimise our development environment so engineers can build faster and friction-free.
- Modernise legacy components while helping evolve our cloud infrastructure.
- Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines Join the on-call rotation for incidents one week per month (only after thorough onboarding).
- Incidents are rare, and usually fixed within 30 minutes.
- Act as the dedicated SRE contact for one of our development teams.
- Contribute actively to knowledge sharing within the SRE team and across the organisation.
- Your team You’ll join our SRE team: a close-knit, diverse and driven group of ten colleagues responsible for the entire Funda platform infrastructure.
- It’s a small team with a big responsibility – and lots of impact.
SRE Lead Brian Wu: ‘In our field, the bigger the platform, the more interesting the puzzle. At Funda, you’re playing in the Champions League of infrastructure: a small team working at massive scale. Every change – big or small – can affect millions of users. That’s what makes the work so fascinating; no day is the same.’ Also listen: Our colleague Floris joined the Dutch Kubernetes podcast (and wrote about the experience here )