YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND
The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.
Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we’re the world’s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.
THE ROLE & THE SRE TEAM
At Zattoo, we’re building the TV platform of the future. With our ever-growing demand for unicast TV delivery, we’re scaling out our custom-built infrastructure to deliver live and on-demand video at multi-Tbps scale. Because we own the full chain - from ingest, encoding/transcoding, packaging, to delivery - our engineers have the unique opportunity to shape how TV is experienced in the future.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of this mission. You’ll help us scale, optimize, and secure our systems while ensuring that our services run with maximum performance and reliability. From improving our monitoring and alerting, to building tools for 24/7 operations, to working hand-in-hand with backend and SRE/Ops teams - your impact will be felt across the entire platform.
If you’re passionate about distributed systems, automation, and on-premise infrastructure, this is your chance to push streaming TV technology to the next level.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build and support on-premise infrastructure to ensure smooth operation of critical systems.
- Analyze, understand and scale Zattoo’s core services for efficiency and reliability.
- Optimize and automate our setup across monitoring, alerting, performance, and profiling.
- Build and improve tools to monitor and control services.
- Propose and implement improvements across platforms, infrastructure, tooling, and processes.
- Collaborate with engineers to help them design and run performant, scalable, and reliable systems.
- Champion stability and security by identifying weak spots, raising awareness, and developing mitigation strategies.
- Participate in the on-call rotation to respond to incidents and maintain service reliability.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Operations role, ideally operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong Kubernetes experience (preferably on-premise clusters).
- Strong experience operating both containerized environments (e.g. Docker, LXC, Kubernetes) and virtualized systems (VMs)
- Good experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation (like Puppet or Ansible).
- Good understanding of telemetry, observability and monitoring practices (metrics, tracing, logging)
- Hands-on experience with ArgoCD and progressive delivery strategies (e.g., Argo Rollouts) in a GitOps environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with distributed, multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
- Fluent English (written and spoken).
WHY JOIN US?
At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- Reward: strong market competitive salary
- Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
- Regulate:trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
Plus:
- We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
- We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
- We’re healthy: Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more
- We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
- We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event
Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer, join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.
You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com
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What We Do
We are one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America. With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform. Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others. We act responsibly: We have been carbon neutral since 2020. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at
