DevOps-Focused Software Engineer

WeTransform GmbH; Darmstadt; Vor Ort; EUR 72.000 - 84.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Professional growth in an innovative team

Health care benefits

Flexible working hours

Central office location

Equity Share via Employee Stock Option Programme

Zusammenfassung

WeTransform GmbH is looking for a DevOps-Focused Software Engineer in Darmstadt. The role involves managing DevOps processes for a platform focused on geospatial data. Candidates should have over 5 years of backend engineering experience and production Kubernetes expertise. The position offers an innovative work environment with health benefits, flexible hours, and a competitive salary range of €72k to €84k based on experience. Join a distributed team solving challenging problems across Europe.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Production Kubernetes experience – has deployed, operated and debugged k8s workloads.
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices.

Aufgaben

• Maintain and improve DevOps processes and tools around k8s deployments.
• Contribute to development of components of the platform.
• Define and implement security measures.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering experience

Production Kubernetes experience

CI/CD pipelines

Security practices

Strong written communication

Remote teamwork

Technical conversations

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Prometheus

Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

DevOps-Focused Software Engineer -
Hybrid/Darmstadt (80-100 %)

The cornerstone of our solutions is to make geospatial data accessible, useable, and useful.

Our vision is to provide the data infrastructure that enables Europe to achieve a sustainable, climate neutral industry and society.

Towards this goal, we already support more than 1.000 organisations in implementing the INSPIRE standards, a set of specifications for the delivery of spatial, environmental and statistical data, and are now building the Green Deal Data Space.

In this role, you will take ownership of the DevOps processes of our platform. You will work with state-of-the-art technologies and highly innovative solutions.

We support exceptional applicants from outside the EU.

Join us and be a cornerstone of the team!

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve DevOps processes and tools around our k8s deployments, including observability
• Contribute to optimisation and development of components of our platform
• Define and implement security technical and organisational measures

Your Profile

Must-Have

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Production Kubernetes experience – has deployed, operated and debugged k8s workloads in production
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
• Comfortable applying current security practices in backend and infrastructure work (secure coding, secrets management, dependency and container scanning)
• Strong written communication and documentation habit;
• Able to work effectively in a remote-first, distributed team
• Comfortable owning technical conversations with customers and partners, including scoping decisions, API integration question

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, Groovy, or Scala)
• Experience running or operating self-managed Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with threat modeling, security reviews, or working under formal security/compliance requirements (e.g. BSI Grundschutz)
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, or similar)
• Background in geoinformatics or related geospatial domains

Nice-to-Have

• Observability and monitoring experience (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalents)
• Experience with terraform/OpenTofu

Our Offer

The most important is of course the work environment: At wetransform, you will work with an innovative and smart team of experts from six countries. Our customers come from 15 different countries, and we solve interesting challenges for them. Professional growth of everybody through peer-to-peer feedback is a core tenant of our company culture.

• Professional growth in an innovative and smart team
• Health care benefits, such as gym memberships
• Flexible working hours with the possibility of working from home
• Central, state-of-the art office in downtown Darmstadt
• Foreseen base salary range is 72k€ to 84k€, based on experience, fit and location (as location impacts ancillary wage costs)
• Equity Share via Employee Stock Option Programme (0.3 to 0.5%)