Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

WhyBrilliant; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Share Options Program for all

Urban Sports Club

Quarterly team retreats

Flexible working hours

Job summary

WhyBrilliant is a Berlin-based manufacturing AI startup seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure with a strong focus on developer experience and hands-on AI systems.

You will design cloud infrastructure on AWS with Terraform, manage Kubernetes, build CI/CD, and implement observability and CDN optimizations. The role is hybrid in Berlin, offering ownership, flat hierarchy and compelling employee options.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS.
• Proficient with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes (deployment, networking, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Strong sysadmin fundamentals (Linux, networking, storage, configuration management).
• Comfortable with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and time-series databases (TimescaleDB, Prometheus).
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across engineering and data science teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Improve developer experience - making it easy for teams to ship and debug.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for full observability.
• Configure and optimise CDN infrastructure.

Skills

AWS expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes administration

Linux system administration

Strong communication

Developer experience focus

Observability concepts

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MySQL

TimescaleDB

Prometheus

Job description

WhyBrilliant is sourcing applicants for this role on behalf of a fast-growing Berlin-based manufacturing AI startup.

The company's identity may stay confidential until first contact.

Atlas, our AI Recruiter, is running this search and will pick the best candidates from Nova's network. The next step is to speak to Nova.

The Role

Job Title: Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Location: Berlin, Germany

We're looking for a (Senior) Platform Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure - with a focus on developer experience and the chance to get hands-on with AI systems.

What You'll Do

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters
• Improve developer experience - making it easy for teams to ship and debug
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for full observability
• Configure and optimise CDN infrastructure

What We Offer

• Employee Share Options Program for all permanent employees
• Benefits including Urban Sports Club and quarterly team retreats
• Hands-on experience working in an AI-first software company defining artificial intelligence in manufacturing
• Flat hierarchy, open 360° feedback, and flexible working hours

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles
• Deep expertise in AWS
• Proficient with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes (deployment, networking, scaling, troubleshooting)
• Strong sysadmin fundamentals (Linux, networking, storage, configuration management)
• Comfortable with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and time-series databases (TimescaleDB, Prometheus)
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across engineering and data science teams

What it's like to work here

At the company, the culture is built on deep ownership and flexibility, where engineers are trusted to own outcomes without micromanagement or clock watching. The team operates on a highly flexible schedule, allowing people to start and end their days as they see fit. While the role is based hybrid in Berlin, most of the development team is located elsewhere, making intentional remote collaboration vital. Decisions are made collaboratively within the team of highly experienced, staff-level peers, with the Head of Software facilitating the conversations and escalating to the CTO only for major architectural turning points. It is an environment where proactive builders thrive and passive caretakers do not.

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