Staff Site Reliability Engineer (100% remote-friendly within Poland)

Job Description

Area of Work

Join Docplanner’s mission-driven global tech community, spanning 13 countries with over 300 technology professionals. As part of our Site Reliability Engineering team in the Platform area, you'll help build and maintain robust systems that serve millions of patients and healthcare professionals every month. In this dynamic, multicultural, and collaborative environment, innovation, autonomy, and teamwork drive meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading healthcare platforms.

In the Platform team, we believe in empowering our engineers and product teams by building exceptional platforms designed with a product mindset. We embrace the Platform as a Product approach, treating our internal platform as a user-centric, continuously evolving product that delivers real value. This means focusing on reducing cognitive load, streamlining workflows, and aligning closely with business needs to accelerate innovation and improve developer experience and autonomy. We prioritize reliability by building resilient platforms that consistently deliver high availability and performance, enabling our teams to innovate with confidence.

Role

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be fully empowered and accountable for driving impactful, complex, company-wide, and cross-area technical initiatives—ensuring robust, scalable solutions with exceptional operational standards. You will actively collaborate with the Engineering Manager (LinkedIn), shaping not only the strategic direction of our Platform area but also influencing the broader company’s technology landscape. Reporting directly to the Head of Internal Platform / Engineering Director (LinkedIn), you will play a key role in continuously enhancing our systems and mentoring technical leaders across teams.

We are committed to ownership, proactivity, continuous improvement, open feedback, and working efficiently towards our goals. This role provides an opportunity to actively contribute to the technical direction of the area, and impact the entire organization.

At Docplanner Tech, our core stack features are Elastic, Vault, MongoDB, MariaDB, Postgres, MSSQL, RabbitMQ, .NET, PHP, Go, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js and React Native—all running on Kubernetes in AWS. Hands-on experience with several of these technologies is essential, as this role is deeply technical and process-oriented. In addition to strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of shaping technical and process decisions are crucial to support and influence engineering teams effectively.

What you will be doing

• Lead and drive technical initiatives that impact company and area-level directions.

• Actively partner with your Engineering Manager counterpart and all engineering teams across the entire tech.

• Provide accountability for all the technical initiatives led.

• Work closely with the technical leaders of the area and the company to develop an effective technical strategy.

• Act as a point of reference for our Engineering teams, especially regarding Reliability, Resiliency, High Availability, Scalability, Observability, Performance, and Incident Response.

• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching inside and outside the team.

• Actively take part in the incident response and management process.