Senior System Administrator (m/f/d) | Munich, Germany

We are looking for an
Engineering Manager
to join the
OREO (Observability Reliability Engineering Obsession)
team in
Platform Engineering
.As an
Engineering Manager
, your mission will be to lead the Reliability & Observability team and drive the evolution of Doctolib's observability platform, supporting the exponential growth of Doctolib services while building and empowering a world-class SRE team.Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are responsible for shaping Doctolib's observability strategy and ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning with a particular focus on building organizational capabilities around logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.Your team also owns and operates critical transversal services that enable secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization, including HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure as code.Your responsibilities include but are not limited to: 
People Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression
• Create a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Recruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values

Technical Strategy:

• Partner with SREs and senior engineers to define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Own the strategy and evolution of critical transversal services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise
• Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives
• Ensure alignment between team objectives and broader engineering and business goals
• Advocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience

Operational Excellence:

• Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to the incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement
• Ensure high availability and reliability of transversal services that are critical to the entire engineering organization
• Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with product and platform needs
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to evolve secrets management and IaC practices across the organization
• Represent the OREO team in engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and strategic planning sessions
• Foster strong partnerships with software engineering teams to improve instrumentation quality and adoption of observability best practices

About our tech environment

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.
• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!

Who you are
Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

• You have at least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (preferably AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based)
• You have 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams)
• You have deep understanding of observability tooling and architecture (Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog)
• You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and secrets management systems (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• You have proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions

Now it would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments
• Have background in designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines
• Have hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise in production environments
• Have hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby)
• Have experience driving cultural and technical transformations

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
• ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
• Up to 14 days of RTT
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• Lunch voucher with Swile card

The interview process

• 30-min phone screen with a Tech Recruiter
• 1h30 technical interview (SRE System Design & Architecture)
• 1h15 behavioral interview (Leadership & People Management)
• 1h30 Engineering Management case study (team scenarios, prioritization, and conflict resolution)
• 1h manager interview with Senior Engineering Leadership
• At least one reference check

Job details

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Berlin
• Start date: as soon as possible

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!
At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.
The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability.
To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.
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Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
Staff Engineer, Payroll Foundations (d/f/m)

Product & Tech | Full Time | Munich or London
The Role

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Munich or London. At Personio, we're on a mission to help millions of people have a better work life. Our People Operating System empowers organisations across Europe to manage HR, payroll, and employee experience in one place.

As a Staff Engineer on the Payroll Foundations team, you'll own the technical direction of the
core data storage and serving system that Personio Payroll runs on
, the foundation the rest of payroll is built on top of. It's the one place in payroll where the database is pushed to its limits, storing and serving payroll data at volumes and complexity far beyond anywhere else in the domain, while guaranteeing that every record is correct and available when it's needed.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer with genuine depth in high-scale data storage. You'll solve the hardest problems around correctness, reliability and performance in the data layer, write meaningful production code where it matters most, and raise the bar for everyone around you. Your decisions will directly affect thousands of employees being paid correctly every month.

What You'll Do

• Own the data foundation: Set the architecture and patterns for the storage and serving system at the heart of payroll processing, establishing standards other teams build on and adopt.
• Go deep where it counts: Design, optimise and scale a PostgreSQL-based data service that handles far higher load than anywhere else in payroll. This is the place where deep database expertise, not general familiarity, is what makes the difference.
• Solve the hardest problems simply: Find the simplest robust solution to complex challenges around correctness, reliability and performance, staying close to the code.
• Keep money-critical systems trustworthy: Ensure payroll data is stored and served accurately and reliably across the platform, treating correctness as the bar rather than a feature.
• Drive complex initiatives end to end: Lead long-running technical efforts that span team boundaries within payroll, taking accountability for delivery and quality the whole way through.
• Raise operational excellence: Set the standard for the reliability, performance and maintainability of this critical service, keeping it dependable at scale.
• Collaborate across boundaries: Partner closely with the teams that feed data into the service and those that depend on it, and with product managers across payroll, so the system fits coherently into the wider domain.
• Coach and elevate engineers: Mentor engineers through design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and the example you set. The team has strong generalists, and you'll bring the deep data expertise to complement them.

What You Need to Succeed

• Deep PostgreSQL expertise (essential): A genuine track record of designing, optimising and scaling PostgreSQL for high-throughput storage and serving, with the kind of depth that can take the database further than a generalist can when problems get hard. This is the one non-negotiable for the role.
• Data-store service experience: Experience building data storage and serving systems as a core responsibility: not just using a database behind an application, but building the store itself.
• Correctness-critical experience: Demonstrated experience designing reliable services with high correctness requirements, where accuracy is non-negotiable.
• Strong programming foundations: Deep experience in languages such as Kotlin, Java or similar, and comfort contributing significant production code while setting direction for others.
• Architectural judgement with a bias for simplicity: Strong instincts for the most reliable and efficient solution rather than the most elaborate one.
• A systems-and-people perspective: The ability to connect the data layer to the wider picture, understanding the teams that send and consume the data and the business goals the system serves, rather than staying purely at the low level.
• Cross-team technical leadership: A track record of anchoring long-running initiatives across multiple teams, from direction-setting through to a shipped, dependable result, and of raising the standards of the engineers around you.

Nice to have

• Experience with temporal or history-tracking data models (systems that record what was true, and what was known, at different points in time).
• Operational ownership of critical infrastructure in an SRE or SRE-like capacity, accountable for correctness, availability and performance.
• Background in fintech, payroll or another regulated, financially sensitive domain where accuracy and compliance are critical.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 days per week required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer, plus 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

In addition, you'll benefit from:

• A competitive reward package including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• 28 days of paid vacation, plus additional days after 2 and 4 years
• One fully paid Impact Day per year
• Generous family leave, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
• Regular team events, healthy office snacks, drinks, and weekly catered lunches