(Senior) DevOps Engineer (d/f/m)
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… (Senior) DevOps Engineer? You will help us ensure that we meet our customers' high-scale demands. As an integral part of our Product Engineering team, you will work closely with product delivery teams to improve all aspects of our SaaS platform: deployment processes, reliability, availability, performance, tooling, engineering team happiness, and security.
We're a stable company with a lot of meaningful work ahead - we're looking for someone who is genuinely passionate about improving product & developer experience and has the drive to make a lasting impact on how we build and deliver software.
Your benefits
- Balance work and personal life with a trust-based work schedule
- 30 days of vacation per calendar year
- Sabbatical (depending on length of service)
- Commission-free company pension plan
- Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket or Jobrad
- Subsidy for Urban Sports membership
- 40 days of workation per year in other European countries
- Hybrid work: dog-friendly office with flexible remote work policies
Your responsibilities
- Design, create, and maintain a cloud-based infrastructure consisting of a variety of self-hosted and managed services on a major European cloud provider
- Partner closely with product delivery teams to help them deliver their services and products faster and with more confidence - bridging the gap between development and production
- Champion developer experience: improve our tooling, automation, performance, and metrics visibility so that engineers can focus on what they do best
- Continuously improve our high-availability setup so that nothing we can foresee can take us down (no single points of failure)
- Perfect our monitoring so that we are the first to know if anything goes wrong
- Test our high availability in a controlled environment and mock emergency situations so that we are prepared for real incidents
Your qualifications
- Passionate about developer experience: You genuinely care about making life easier for the engineers around you; whether that's through better tooling, smoother pipelines, or clearer processes. This is what gets you up in the morning
- Committed team player: You bring a collaborative spirit and a commitment to building emotionally safe environments where teams can do their best work
- Excellent communicator: Clear, concise, empathetic, and unambiguous; you fight for clarity and prefer to over-communicate rather than under-communicate
- Extensive experience with deploying and monitoring large-scale web applications (mainly using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with experience in Golang, Python, Redis, Elasticsearch, NodeJS, and others)
- Familiarity with Linux systems, including server administration, shell scripting, and working comfortably in command-li
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