Senior Platform SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

• Applications are considered on a rolling basis

Job Description

We are looking for a driven Senior Platform SRE(Site Reliability Engineering) to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is a part of our passionate Platform team based in Stockholm. As we expand our operations with ambitious plans to build the largest battery factories globally and maintain our digital backbone, your senior experience and leadership will be pivotal in ensuring the seamless operation of our systems at scale.

About the Role As a vital member of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust monitoring strategies for our production environments, ensuring system health and uptime. You will also play a key role in innovating and enhancing our software infrastructure to promote scalability, reliability, and rapid deployment, aligning with our ambitious growth plans. Additionally, you will lead efforts in system performance optimizations, anticipating future demands and technological advancements. Your expertise will be crucial in providing operational support and engineering for large-scale distributed systems, maintaining a delicate balance between rapid feature development and reliability.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Serve as a technical and strategic leader, defining the SRE vision and aligning it with our broader business and environmental goals.
• Build and mentor a team of SREs, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical decisions, troubleshoot complex issues, and advocate for automation to develop sustainable and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product teams, developers, DevOps, and security teams to refine services, optimize workflows, and ensure secure and seamless deployments.
• Proactively engage in capacity planning, resource management, and system enhancements to support operational excellence.

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.

Skills & Requirements

We believe that you have :

• 2-5 years of proven senior/leadership in SRE or a related field
• A passion for technical and team development.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS prefer red), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring/observability systems.
• A strategic thinker capable of translating business needs into a robust SRE strategy that supports long-term goals.
• An excellent communicator and mentor, dedicated to developing junior SREs and enhancing cross-functional team collaboration.
• A problem-solving expert who can handle complex challenges and innovate with proactive solutions.

Join us in shaping the heartbeat of our infrastructure and spearheading the green industrial revolution. Together, we will drive the reliability and performance of systems that power some of the world's most critical digital and industrial infrastructures!

About the company

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable, sustainable, and high-quality cells and battery systems. Built to enable the future of energy.

To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make the world’s greenest batteries.

Northvolt is growing fast. We’re looking for smart people from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun!