Team Lead, SRE

We're looking for a Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering, to lead our SRE team in Amsterdam. You'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform—enabling product teams to deliver value quickly and safely. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set technical direction, drive engineering excellence, and grow a high-performing team.

Why DataSnipper?

Audit and finance are still massively manual — and we’re changing that.

DataSnipper is a $1B, bootstrapped unicorn with 600,000+ users across 180+ countries, already embedded in the daily workflows of top audit and accounting firms. Now, we’re taking things further with our Excel Agent — bringing AI directly into where the work actually happens.
Unlike generic AI tools, we don’t sit on the sidelines. Our AI operates inside Excel, with access to real documents and audit evidence — meaning it doesn’t just generate answers, it does the work, with full traceability.

We’re not just applying AI — we’re redefining how audit gets done. If you want to build something category-defining at scale, this is the place.

What You’ll Own:

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of highly available and scalable infrastructure on Azure

• Set and evolve the team's technical direction for CI/CD, observability, security and infrastructure-as-code

• Architect self-service tooling that empowers product teams to deploy and operate autonomously

• Own the observability strategy end-to-end—define SLIs/SLOs, enforce actionable logs, metrics, alerts, and Grafana dashboards for every service before go-live

• Champion Infrastructure as Code via Terraform—no manual changes, no ClickOps

• Participate in an on-call rotation

People Leadership

• Lead the SRE team day-to-day: set priorities, provide direction, and remove blockers

• Coach and mentor engineers on reliability best practices, career growth, and technical skills

• Create a safe, inclusive environment where the team can experiment, learn, and deliver

• Provide regular, constructive feedback and drive performance through recognition and development

• Facilitate collaboration across teams, resolving friction constructively

Strategy & Execution

• Own and report on key success metrics: Provisioning Lead Time, MTTD, MTTR, Compliance Coverage, Support Toil Duration, and Planned Outage Duration

• Translate engineering strategy into clear team priorities aligned with company goals

• Prioritize work based on business impact

• Drive incident management processes and post-incident reviews

• Ensure compliance with certifications (e.g., SOC 2) and security best practices

• Coordinate with the US-based team to align workload priorities with the platform centralization strategy

What you bring:

Must-Have

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with 2+ years leading a team

• Excellent people skills—clear communicator, effective at managing and coaching engineers, and able to translate complex technical topics for diverse audiences

• Deep expertise in a major cloud platform (we use Azure), including strong understanding of cloud networking, management, and security

• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (we use Claude Code)

• Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (we use Terraform)

• Proven track record with CI/CD platforms and pipeline design (we use GitHub Actions)

• Proficiency with observability and monitoring stacks (we use Grafana), including structured logging, alerting, and dashboarding

• Strong coding ability in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Go, etc.)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with GPU infrastructure and scaling for ML workloads

• Experience in secure engineering or compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling

What We Offer:

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing, profitable unicorn scale-ups in the Netherlands with a global impact

• Equity (Stock Appreciation Rights) to share the company's success and growth

• Excellent salary package, competitive for top tech talent

• Pension plan with a 6% contribution on top of your base salary

• 28 vacation days per year (full-time) to support your work-life balance

• Hybrid work model with at least 3 days onsite in our dynamic Amsterdam office

• Daily, freshly prepared lunches by our in-house chef to keep you energized

• NS business card for easy commuting to the office

• Access to continuous learning and development initiatives to grow your skills

• Engage with a vibrant international team spread across five global offices

• Company-wide events like DataSnipper GO where global teams come together

• Access to OpenUp, a mental health and wellness platform supporting your wellbeing

• Friday drinks and various social activities are designed for team bonding and fun

Recruitment Steps

• Chat with the recruiter - 30 minutes

• Call with the Hiring Manager - 45 minutes

• Online live- troubleshooting - 1 hour

• System design - 1 hour

• Final interview

At DataSnipper, your engineering expertise will directly influence the future of audit automation while advancing your career in a vibrant and fast-moving environment. If you thrive on technical complexity and want to make an impact, come build the future with us.