Application Guide
How to Apply for Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (all genders)
at GridX
🏢 About GridX
GridX is pioneering decentralized virtual power plant technology to transform sustainable energy management, making them a leader in the green tech space. Their focus on intelligent energy solutions offers the chance to work on meaningful infrastructure that directly supports renewable energy adoption. As a remote-first company in Germany, they provide flexibility while tackling complex technical challenges in a growing sector.
About This Role
This Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on evolving GridX's multi-tenant cloud and container infrastructure with a strong emphasis on infrastructure-as-code and developer empowerment. You'll be responsible for building secure, scalable systems while maturing observability platforms that drive architectural decisions across engineering teams. The position directly impacts the reliability of virtual power plant technology that enables sustainable energy management.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day involves collaborating with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs while writing Terraform code to evolve cloud resources. You might spend time analyzing observability data to identify performance bottlenecks before they become incidents, then document solutions in operational runbooks. The role balances proactive infrastructure development with supporting teams through self-service capabilities and technical deep-dives.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who GridX Is Looking For
- Has 3+ years in SRE/Platform roles with hands-on experience managing distributed systems in production environments using major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Demonstrates strong infrastructure-as-code expertise with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks, showing a developer mindset in operations
- Possesses experience building observability platforms that go beyond data collection to provide actionable insights and establish meaningful SLOs
- Shows autonomy in driving technical initiatives end-to-end and experience empowering engineering teams through self-service capabilities and documentation
📝 Tips for Applying to GridX
Highlight specific multi-tenant cloud infrastructure projects you've evolved, emphasizing security, scalability, and cost-efficiency metrics
Showcase your infrastructure-as-code portfolio with links to GitHub repositories demonstrating declarative management of cloud resources
Prepare concrete examples of how you've matured observability platforms that drove architectural decisions, not just implemented monitoring tools
Demonstrate your experience with post-incident processes by describing a specific bottleneck you identified proactively and how you prevented it from becoming an incident
Tailor your resume to show how you've built self-service capabilities that allowed engineering teams to own their full lifecycle in previous roles
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
["Your experience with multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and how you've taken end-to-end ownership of components", "Specific examples of bringing a developer's mindset to operations through high-quality code and automation", "How you've empowered engineering teams through self-service capabilities and documentation in previous roles", "Your interest in GridX's sustainable energy mission and how your SRE experience aligns with supporting virtual power plant technology"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → GridX's virtual power plant technology and how it enables decentralized energy management
- → The energy sector's digital transformation and Germany's renewable energy landscape
- → Multi-tenant architecture challenges specific to energy management platforms
- → GridX's tech stack mentions in their engineering blog or public technical talks
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on incident response without demonstrating proactive infrastructure evolution and automation
- Generic cloud experience without specific examples of managing infrastructure as declarative code
- Treating observability as just monitoring implementation rather than a platform for driving architectural decisions
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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