Site Reliability Data Engineer

Location: Athens, Greece

Department: R&D, Engineering

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

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 Site Reliability Data Engineer based in Athens, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data infrastructure and pipelines. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to build and operate robust cloud-based systems, driving automation and observability across our platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Build, operate, and improve ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark workloads, and data warehouse components.
• Develop tools and automations to simplify and harden data pipeline workflows and general operations.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure and services with a focus on automation and reliability.
• Develop and operate observability tooling for monitoring, logging, tracing, and data-pipeline metrics (freshness, completeness, latency, error rates).
• Collaborate with development teams to instrument, deploy, and troubleshoot production systems across microservices on Kubernetes.
• Operate, deploy, and monitor data infrastructure and cloud services from development to production.
• Own availability, scalability, and performance of systems, focusing on data pipelines and warehousing components.
• Partner with peer SREs to roll out production changes and mitigate data-related and infrastructure incidents.
• Troubleshoot issues across data pipelines and production systems; support capacity planning and analyze system and data workflow performance.
• Provide data engineering expertise to engineering teams and work cross-functionally with developers and analysts on designing, releasing, and troubleshooting production systems.
• Own team projects and ensure timely delivery.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• 2+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, data engineering, or a closely related role, including programming
• Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools (Terraform or Ansible)
• Experience with ETL/ELT concepts and tools (Airflow or dbt)
• Experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed data processing frameworks
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Scala)
• Excellent written English proficiency
• Legally authorized to work in Greece

Preferred Qualifications:

• Production experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with centralized monitoring and logging systems
• Experience with streaming systems (Kafka or Spark Streaming)

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.
• 💰 Competitive Compensation: An attractive salary paired with a performance-based bonus plan.
• 🏠 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 background and hire without regard to colour, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.