Senior Platform Engineer

YAZIO

Senior Platform Engineer building and running cloud-native infrastructure for Yazio's Backend and Data Engineering teams. Focused on Kubernetes landscape management and automation.

Posted 7/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in Kubernetes management, deployment automation, and observability, with a strong focus on infrastructure-level problem-solving and team collaboration. Proficient in Linux environments and capable of guiding engineering teams through complex technical challenges.

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Kubernetes ManagementDeployment AutomationObservabilityLinux ProficiencyNetworking Knowledge

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Hard Skills

KubernetesDeployment AutomationObservabilityDatabase ManagementNetworkingGo ProgrammingPython ProgrammingCapacity PlanningDebuggingInfrastructure Management

Soft Skills

CommunicationProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityTeam Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

Amazon EKSRancherMetricsDashboardsAlerting

Industry Keywords

GitOpsSelf-Hosted InfrastructureProduction EnvironmentRelational DatabasesKey-Value DatabasesTLSTCP/UDP

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoKubernetesLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run and evolve our Kubernetes landscape (Amazon EKS, plus on-prem clusters via Rancher). Every deployment at Yazio lands on what you operate
Automate deployment and scaling until releases are a non-event, and guide engineering teams in getting the most out of that automation
Build out observability so you spot problems before users notice them: metrics, dashboards, alerting
Dig into infrastructure-level incidents and turn what you find into fixes that stick
Design the abstractions that let Backend and Data Engineers ship without opening a ticket
Have a real say in our shift away from the remaining self-hosted infrastructure: what moves to the cloud, what stays and what gets automated away

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've operated Kubernetes in production for years. Upgrades, capacity planning, debugging the cluster itself, not just the workloads running on it
Observability, GitOps and deployment automation are how you work by default, not extras you bolt on later
You're at home on a Linux host, and the second time you touch something manual, you automate it
You know databases (relational and key-value) and networking well enough to reason through a production issue. You don't need to be a DBA or a network engineer; curiosity covers the rest
Small team, changing priorities, nobody handing you a spec: that sounds like your kind of week
When you explain a complex technical trade-off, people leave the conversation clearer than they arrived
Bonus points for: Go (a lot of our tooling is written in it, and so is the Kubernetes ecosystem) or Python beyond simple scripting
Running self-hosted databases in production, replication and recovery included
Deep networking knowledge (TLS, TCP/UDP internals)
Operating on-prem Kubernetes with Rancher

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 vacation days to relax and recharge
5 child sick days if your little one needs you
A focus-driven culture that values efficiency over long hours—no overtime expectations, and if it happens, you get that time back!
A high-impact environment where your work drives real change—short decision-making processes and no micromanagement
A team culture where ambition and balance go hand in hand, supported by strong connections—from our fully covered company retreat to team meetups and virtual coffee breaks
Tools and support to do your best work: MacBook, monitor and €1,000 annual learning budget, plus regular feedback and career development
A truly international team with English as our company language and a shared commitment to growth and well-being—supported by Sunday Supplements and Nilo Health