Site Reliability & Platform Engineer (GCP)
Site Reliability & Platform Engineer at insurtech Qover (Brussels, hybrid) who keeps their embedded-insurance platform on GCP reliable, scalable, and secure — building Kubernetes/Terraform infrastructure, observability and SLOs, CI/CD automation, and developer tooling, plus incident response and some TypeScript backend work.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Brussels
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or similar infrastructure-focused roles
- Strong understanding of observability and production reliability: monitoring, distributed tracing, incident response, SLIs and SLOs
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and architecture, ideally GCP (AWS or Azure equally valuable)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Strong programming fundamentals and ability to contribute to production backend code; familiarity with microservices, asynchronous messaging, data persistence, and distributed systems; primarily TypeS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and developer-experience tooling/self-service
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for infrastructure and shared platform capabilities
- Clear written and verbal communication, collaboration across functions
Nice to have
- Comfort in a scale-up environment with shifting priorities and ambiguity
- Experience with code reviews, pairing, and mentoring; knowledge sharing
Full description
Who we are :
We are Qover, a leading insurtech scale-up that has raised $100 million. With an international team of 160+ colleagues based in Brussels and beyond, we help companies orchestrate digital embedded insurance experiences — creating meaningful connections with their community and enabling their success.
Since Qover was founded in 2016, our co-founders have had a clear vision of the future of insurance: it must be simple, transparent, and accessible across borders — a global safety net.
Our platform protects 15M+ users across 32 European countries and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, Canyon, and Monzo, among many others.
.Visit our website for more about what we do!
The Opportunity: Your Next Big Leap
You’re not looking to churn through tickets — you want to build systems that matter, at a meaningful scale, alongside a team that values strong engineering.
At Qover, you’ll help power embedded insurance experiences used by leading brands like Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, and Monzo. Our platform operates across 32 countries and supports millions of end users through our partners.
We’re entering our next phase of growth and investing in the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our platform. We’re looking for engineers who care about clean architecture, pragmatic decision-making, and building software that lasts.
Your Impact: What You’ll Do
As a Site Reliability & Platform Engineer at Qover, you’ll play a key role in keeping our platform reliable, scalable, secure, and performant. You’ll combine software engineering and infrastructure expertise to improve how we build, deploy, and operate our services, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and developer experience. Here is a taste of what you will be working on:
- Use AI thoughtfully — in engineering and operations: We encourage responsible use of AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation. You'll also have space to explore how emerging AI capabilities could meaningfully improve our infrastructure, operational processes, and developer experience.
- Build and evolve scalable infrastructure: Design, automate, and maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting millions of users across 32 countries. You'll help ensure our platform can grow reliably while balancing performance, security, and cost.
- Drive reliability, SLOs & observability: Define and evolve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Build effective monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, helping engineering teams understand and improve the reliability of their services.