Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability within adidas Digital Ecom Tech ensures the stability and reliability of products built and run on large-scale, distributed systems, providing an exceptional, uninterrupted user experience across Web and Mobile platforms. The role involves leading the design, implementation and operation of these systems while driving automation, observability and continuous improvement. The team is agile, empowered to make change and obsessed with maintaining stable and reliable platforms for consumers, and its members are creative, collaborative and confident.

• Lead the design, implementation and build of large-scale, distributed systems, ensuring the availability, scalability, performance and efficiency of systems and software components.
• Drive the continuous integration and continuous deployment strategy, combining velocity, availability, quality and security.
• Automate toil so that systems perform repetitive work, preventing problem recurrence, reducing time to recover and optimising engineering time.
• Continuously improve time to detect issues through better observability and advanced alerting implementations.
• Define and iterate on SLIs, SLOs and SLAs as part of the services lifecycle.
• Participate in on-call incident technical support.
• Work on technical resolution for incidents, identifying technical root cause and creating a backlog to avoid repeated incidents, including post-mortems to arrive at remedial actions.
• Help define standards and adopt new technologies.

• Strong awareness and experience of working with Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• 5 to 7 years of IT experience, with 3 years in a relevant area (DevOps/SRE); 7 years for the Senior Software Engineer position.
• 2 years of proven experience leading a team (for senior roles).
• College or university degree with a focus on IT, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proficient spoken and written command of English.
• Aptitude to be a good team player, with the desire to learn and implement new technologies.
• Experience writing software in OOP (Java, Node.js, Go or Python), with the ability to adapt, learn and work with different languages and frameworks.
• Experience with large-scale, complex distributed systems.
• Passion for SRE/DevOps.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.

• Experience with REST APIs, API integration and web services.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure or Google).
• Experience with distributed message queues (Kafka, AWS SQS or RabbitMQ).
• Experience with containerised environments (Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift).
• Experience with CI/CD build pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD or GitHub).
• Experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Elasticsearch or APM).
• Experience establishing service levels across teams and operating with them.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible).
• Knowledge of networking concepts (SSH, FTP, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, CDN).
• Experience integrating AI/ML-driven tooling into traditional CI/CD and production infrastructure to enable automated event correlation, predictive alerting and self-healing systems.

• Hybrid work setup, with a flexible remote work environment of up to 40% per week combined with onsite facilities and culture.

• Part of a company where digital transformation, innovation and continuous improvement are core principles of the culture.
• Join a team of talented and passionate quality engineers, with extensive opportunities to grow and reach expectations.
• Part of a highly engaged, multinational organisation with international career opportunities.
• Individual development, training and a tech community.
• Benefits and valuable discounts on adidas products.

The company believes that through sport it has the power to change lives, and its digital products are its most powerful tool for touching the lives of consumers.