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Senior Platform Engineer
Location
Germany
Posted
89 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer
YAZIO
• Operating and evolving our Kubernetes landscape (AWS EKS and on-prem via Rancher) • Maintaining and modernizing self-hosted relational databases (MariaDB and PostgreSQL) • Designing internal platform abstractions that reduce cognitive load for Backend and Data teams • Automating manual operational processes and improving deployment consistency • Improving CI/CD architecture and release safety • Investigating and resolving infrastructure-level production incidents • Strengthening observability and monitoring across services • Contributing to the long-term evolution of our cloud-native platform strategy
Job Requirements
- Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience (EKS preferred)
- Experience operating production systems in hybrid environments (AWS and self-hosted infrastructure)
- Solid Linux administration and deep debugging skills
- Experience with relational databases in production (MariaDB and/or PostgreSQL, ideally self-hosted)
- Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD architecture and automation
- Observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, or similar)
- Strong programming experience in Go, or in Python with solid software engineering foundations beyond scripting
- Ability to read and reason about upstream code when systems break
- A structured, automation-driven mindset with high ownership in complex environments
- Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to other teams
Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Access to state-of-the-art technical equipment (laptop, external monitor, etc.)
- An exciting product with millions of users in over 150 countries, localized in 20 languages
- A work culture characterized by focus and efficiency. We do not work overtime and, on the rare occasions this is necessary, you can take the additional hours off at another time.
- Yearly company retreat and additional team events online and offline
- A remote-first culture, working 100% from home with options to join a co-working space or to work from abroad for several weeks
- An international team with English as our company language
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