Platform Engineer

Zalion

Platform Engineer building and evolving secure AWS infrastructure for Zalion, a Procurement AI start-up. Own the platform foundations end-to-end, enhancing developer experience and operational efficiency.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeMunich • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €80,000 - €125,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own our platform foundations end-to-end — from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults).
Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform — with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation.
Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction.
Drive availability, scalability, and resilience: deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning.
Implement pragmatic security-by-default: least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety.
Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team.
Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production.
Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure.
Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews.
Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops.
A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs).
Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.
A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate.
Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs.
4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Massive autonomy, zero bureaucracy
Immediate impact — your work accelerates every engineer and every release
Modern stack, no legacy constraints
Competitive salary + meaningful equity
High-end equipment

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformCI/CDGitHubnetworkingIAMsecurity controlsmonitoringalertingSLOs

Soft Skills

reliability mindsetoperability mindsetsecurity awarenessbuilder mindsetcomfort with ambiguityownershipproactive problem solvingiterationcollaborationcommunication