Site Reliability Engineer

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.

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Your responsibilities

• Optimise our development environment so engineers can build faster and friction-free.

• Modernise legacy components while helping evolve our cloud infrastructure.

• 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 nine 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.’

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Why being a Site Reliability Engineer at Funda is awesome

• You work in a small team on one of the largest platforms in the Netherlands, handling huge traffic and load.

• You get freedom and responsibility in a mature cloud environment where there’s still plenty to improve.

• You become part of a close team where people stay for years – because the work is fun and the culture is even better.

This is you

• You have experience as an SRE or DevOps Engineer and are ready to grow further.

• You’ve worked with Azure, Terraform and Kubernetes.

• You’re comfortable in both Linux and Windows environments.

• You’re not afraid to dive into unfamiliar systems and see troubleshooting as a challenge.

• Bonus points if you can do something in C#, Python, SQL or OpenSearch.

• You're currently living in the Netherlands and speak fluent English (Dutch is a plus).

Love being spoiled? Well, we love spoiling you!

• A good salary between € 4.609,50 - € 6.486,35 per month, based on a 40-hour work week

• Annual bonus of up to 1.5 times your monthly salary

• Hybrid working: minimum 40% in the office

• 25 paid days off a year and the possibility to buy more

• Working hours (32/36/40 per week) are negotiable

• 60% pension coverage

• A learning budget of up to € 2000 per year plus unlimited access to digital courses at our own Fundacademy

• A net monthly reimbursement of up to € 85 for your phone and internet costs

• A net work-from-home allowance of € 2.40 per day

• Full coverage of your travel costs for office days (if you live over 5 km away)

• Unlimited access to mental support via OpenUp for both work-related and personal matters, including phone consultations with psychologists

• The opportunity to take an (unpaid) 3-month sabbatical every 3 years

• Contribution to your membership at selected gyms and regular massages at the office

• Office lunch freshly prepared by our in-house chefs for a small, legally required contribution deducted from your salary

• Parties and team outings: from drinks on boats to graffiti workshops. And a present for your birthday, or just because – because why not?

Interested? Let's go

1. Apply with your CV and motivation letter via the button below.

2. Meet one of our recruiters in a short video call.

3. Positive? Then you can expect a maximum of two interview rounds.

4. Part of the second round is a live whiteboard session in which you brainstorm a challenge together with future colleagues.

Read more about our hiring process or check our FAQ.

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