Senior Platform Engineer
vivenu
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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About the role
- designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure and tools to support over 1 billion monthly requests, ensuring performance, availability, and resilience
- help with configuration, unblocking the occasional stuck deployment and enable teams to manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling across a highly dynamic environment
- collaborating closely with engineering teams and technical leadership to improve reliability, system performance, and deployment velocity
- continuously monitoring, testing, and improving our systems to meet fast-growing operational demands, with a focus on automation and observability
- contributing to infrastructure design decisions and building reusable, modular infrastructure components using Terraform
- actively sharing knowledge, improving engineering practices, and elevating the team’s engineering culture
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE in high-scale production environments.
- proven expertise in cloud-based systems (ideally GCP). Confidence in scaling infrastructure for high-traffic services.
- past experience of breaking and fixing Terraform state files without anyone noticing.
- ability to write code (Go and/or Typescript but any modern language will be fine) but mostly read and quickly comprehend different code databases.
- a collaborative and proactive mindset, with a strong interest in sharing expertise, mentoring peers, and continuously learning.
- the desire to thrive in environments that balance high technical standards with pragmatic decision-making.
- Kubernetes expertise, knowing how to run, secure, scale, and debug workloads in real-world scenarios
- deep knowledge in system performance and resilience engineering
- seen Terraform evolve over time: Experienced not only green fields, but organically grown very actively changing stacks.
- experience managing rollouts of custom software over global infrastructure, orchestration of multi-tiered, canary or staggered deployments.
- actual in-deep Go or Typescript coding experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development budget
- Home office setup allowance
- Global team events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure EngineeringDevOpsProduction EngineeringPlatform EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringTerraformKubernetesGoTypescriptcloud-based systems
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetproactive mindsetmentoringcontinuous learningstrong interest in sharing expertisehigh technical standardspragmatic decision-making