Senior Platform Engineer

Emma – The Sleep Company

full-time

Posted on: 10/7/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

You will design, build, and scale Emma’s internal platform, enabling fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across all our product teams.
You will develop and maintain developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation to reduce cognitive load and increase team productivity.
You will own critical parts of our internal tooling and platform services, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and usability.
You will collaboratively work closely with engineering teams to understand their workflows and remove friction from the software development lifecycle.
You will contribute to our DevOps and SRE practices, ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response for our platform services.
You will help define and implement standards, documentation, and best practices that enable scalable and consistent development across Emma.
You will work as part of an agile, empowered team, actively sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and fostering a collaborative environment for innovation.
You will take part in recruitment processes to grow our platform and engineering teams.

Requirements

You have a track record of designing and operating scalable internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling in a cloud-native environment.
You have solid experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi), CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Argo CD), and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
You bring strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, software design, and distributed systems.
You are experienced in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and familiar with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
You have hands-on experience implementing observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and promoting a culture of reliability and operational excellence.
You care deeply about code quality, maintainability, and documentation.
You are highly self-organized, with a strong sense of ownership and a proactive approach to using technology to solve internal challenges.
You have strong analytical skills, business acumen, and are an open-minded and creative team player that challenges directly while caring deeply. A background in supporting large-scale production systems or enabling teams through platform abstraction is a plus.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package.
A combination of personal and company growth to accelerate your career and help you reach your goals.
A career development path with access to mentorship, training, and learning resources tailored to your growth.
The opportunity to work on exciting and impactful projects with a collaborative, international team.
A culture that values innovation and initiative, where your ideas and contributions are encouraged and appreciated.
The chance to learn from experienced professionals across disciplines and participate in team-building and company-wide events.

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Hard skills

infrastructure-as-codeCI/CDcloud-nativeprogramming languagesobservability toolsscalable internal platformssoftware designdistributed systemscontainer technologiescode quality