Public summary
Seeking a Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer for a leading cloud infrastructure provider in Germany. This full-time, permanent remote-first role offers flexibility for hybrid or on-site work at offices in major German cities. Responsibilities include ownership of shared infrastructure services such as API gateways, persistent storage, secrets and identity systems, and observability tooling. The engineer will improve and document legacy systems, design on-call and incident management processes, and advise multiple teams as a technical authority. The role requires 7+ years experience in platform or SRE roles, hands-on knowledge of distributed storage and Kubernetes, experience with API gateways and CDN security tools, strong system design skills, and proficiency in English. Benefits include flexible work options, professional development, health perks, and a diverse, collaborative environment.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Munich
- Remote status
- Remote
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Own and manage shared infrastructure services including API gateways, persistent storage, secrets and identity infrastructure, edge security, and observability platform. Lead the design and implementation of on-call processes and incident runbooks. Analyze and improve legacy systems by identifying risks and deciding on fixes, replacements or retirements. Advise multiple development teams as technical authority, document knowledge to avoid critical knowledge silos, and contribute to system design reviews by applying system design fundamentals.
Qualifications
7+ years experience in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering with end-to-end responsibility for private cloud or IaaS platforms. Production experience with distributed storage systems like Ceph and Kubernetes persistent storage solutions such as Longhorn. Skilled in operating API gateways (Kong, Nginx Ingress), CDN/edge security tools (e.g. Cloudflare), WAF configuration, and firewall rule design. Strong understanding of system design principles including load balancing, caching, sharding, replication, and consistency trade-offs. Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and the design of SLOs/SLIs. Familiarity with secrets and identity infrastructure (Vault, Keycloak), messaging systems (NATS), and building on-call processes from scratch. Excellent English communication skills; German language skills are a plus but not required.