Senior Infrastructure Engineer, f/m/d

alcemy

full-time

Posted on: 1/7/2026

Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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About the role

Build, deploy and ship infrastructure for cloud-native software solutions together with our product teams.
Work closely with other engineers to ensure our AWS-based infrastructure, kubernetes platform, and development processes are top notch.
Support application developers and ML specialists in their daily work with questions around tooling, deployment, CI/CD, and many others.
Develop internal solutions and tooling - using Python or Go - to automate and optimize our setup.
Evaluate our setup and processes to constantly improve it on a number of dimensions like cost, simplicity, and user adoption.
Design for high security, reliability and availability including logging and monitoring of the environments.
Mentor and provide guidance to others, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

You have a number of years of experience working with AWS, especially with a multi-account setup.
You have significant knowledge of running applications in the cloud with kubernetes and Helm, and you understand the inner workings of these tools and others from the ecosystem like Prometheus, Loki, Argo Workflows, Karpenter, etc.
You have in-depth knowledge in infrastructure-as-code and expertise with Terraform.
You have a strong commitment to DevOps principles (CI/CD) and can lead the way.
You don’t shy away from the shell, Bash scripting, and git.
You are a great communicator and documenter.
You care about fighting climate change.
Even better:
You have previous experience of working in an infrastructure role in a startup and know about the particular challenges.
You have some cybersecurity expertise.
You know how to set up CI pipelines with Gitlab.
You know how to fine-tune postgres databases for performance.
You have written your own kubernetes controller.

Benefits

A company culture where honesty, professionalism, and integrity run deep with an open feedback culture and regular 1:1 meetings.
Flat hierarchies, efficient decision-making processes, and an agile company structure.
Competitive market-rate salary aligned with your experience.
VSOP equity options vested equally over 4 years (for working 40h a week/full time)
Work fully remotely within Germany or from our office in the heart of Berlin with flexible working hours. We offer a Berlin-based contract with a remote clause, meaning Berlin bank holidays will apply.
Of course, free drinks, fruit and snacks in the office.
Regular team activities and team weeks a few times per year.
Mac laptop.
Budget for personal and professional development - 1500€/year & 3 days/quarter.
English is our main language of communication.
28 days of vacation per year and an additional day of vacation every 2 years at alcemy.
Access to nilo.health - the comprehensive mental well-being platform that provides access to 1-to-1 sessions with psychologists, group sessions and self-guided tools.
Access to heynanny - flexible childcare and eldercare support with on-demand nannies, eldercare services, live webinars, and one-on-one calls for professional guidance.
Dog-friendly office with specific rules in place, as well as dog-free areas for work and relaxation.
Regular knowledge-sharing through our internal masterclasses.

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

AWSKubernetesHelmTerraformBash scriptingGitCI/CDPostgresPythonGo

communicationdocumentationmentoringknowledge sharingcontinuous improvement