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DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead
Location
Germany
Posted
74 days ago
Salary
€70K - €80K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead
MAIA
• You will be the first person who owns this area entirely. • Your mission is to make MAIA's platform reliable, secure, auditable, and developer-friendly, at a stage where every decision you make has lasting impact. • You take full ownership of our infrastructure and establish the standards that will govern how it grows - Hetzner first, AWS, GCP, and Azure for selected services. • You own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment workflows - improving rollout strategies, versioning, and rollback procedures from where they stand today. • You build out and mature our observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Sentry, PostHog) so that problems surface before customers notice them. • You implement and own our security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, TLS, vulnerability scanning, and patch management. • You drive the technical controls required for our ISO 27001 certification and build the systems that produce auditable evidence continuously.
Job Requirements
- Strong experience running production systems in a SaaS environment
- Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals, containers and reverse proxies and API gateways (e.g., Traefik, Kong)
- Strong security fundamentals: IAM and least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and patching
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and observability tooling (Grafana/Loki or similar)
- PostgreSQL operations basics: availability, backup and restore, performance awareness
- Fluent in English. German is a plus.
- Strong ownership mentality - you take responsibility end-to-end, without needing to be managed
- People enjoy working with you - not just because of what you know, but because of how you interact with them
- Pragmatic builder - you improve systems without adding unnecessary complexity, and you can defend why a simpler approach was the right call
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities
- You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and fully remote
- Access to a WellPass fitness membership for your physical and mental wellbeing
- Competitive salary of 70,000 - 80,000 EUR and VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan) participation opportunities
- Direct and lasting impact on product reliability, security posture, and company growth
- Short decision-making paths, real ownership, and a team that trusts you to lead your area without being managed
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