Software engineer jobs in Germany

About the role

Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineer (Platform) based in Germany. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help build and evolve the systems that enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, developer tooling, and operational workflows. The role combines hands-on engineering with a strong focus on improving developer experience and reducing infrastructure complexity. You’ll partner closely with application, security, and infrastructure teams in a highly distributed, asynchronous environment. You’ll also explore practical applications of AI and automation to increase engineering productivity and reduce operational toil. This is an opportunity to shape platform capabilities as a product while building reliable foundations for a globally distributed organization. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help build and evolve the systems that enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, developer tooling, and operational workflows. You’ll partner closely with application, security, and infrastructure teams in a highly distributed, asynchronous environment. You’ll also explore practical applications of AI and automation to increase engineering productivity and reduce operational toil.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a comparable production engineering role.
• Strong software development skills, with the ability to build maintainable automation, tooling, and reusable platform abstractions.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on AWS.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Practical experience building, operating, and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production debugging using tools such as Datadog, Sentry, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, incident response, and production operations.
• A platform-oriented mindset, with a focus on reducing cognitive load for engineering teams and making secure, reliable practices easy to adopt.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly within remote and asynchronous engineering environments.
• Fluent English and a reliable home internet connection, or the ability to obtain one.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Harness, Drone, or other modern CI/CD platforms is advantageous.
• Experience improving macOS or Linux developer environments through automation and tooling is beneficial.

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