Platform Engineer - RelEng (100% remote)

Giant Swarm; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work perks

Bi-annual hackathons

Company-wide tech talks

Job summary

Giant Swarm is seeking a Platform Engineer to help run the Kubernetes release pipeline and improve the testing platform. You will build and maintain shared Kubernetes services and automation, enabling teams to release software efficiently.

You’ll participate in on‑call rotations, fix issues, and automate repetitive tasks. The role suits experienced engineers who enjoy collaborating across teams and delivering robust infra in production environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one major CI/CD system (Tekton, Jenkins or Concourse).
• Experience with GitOps and tooling such as Flux or Argo.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Go and Bash, and a strong software engineering background.
• You are an experienced Linux user.
• Comfort using AI tooling in development process.
• Comfort working with developers across other teams to solve problems.
• Used to deploying to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things.
• We are distributed around Europe; main timezone UTC +/- 2.
• Active in Cloud Native / Kubernetes space.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the pipeline for Kubernetes releases and testing platform.
• Develop and maintain shared Kubernetes services and automation tooling.
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate and release software.
• Participate in on‑call rotation for alerts and incidents.
• Work independently on tasks and communicate with team when decisions are needed.

Skills

Linux proficiency

Go programming

Shell scripting

On-call experience

Automation mindset

Tools

Tekton

Jenkins

Concourse

Flux

Argo

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Go

Bash

Linux

Job description

The Basics

We are looking for a Platform Engineer (m/f/d). You will be a key member of a tight‑knit group of talented engineers who are responsible for building the Giant Swarm Developer Platform. The specific team is using cutting‑edge technologies including Kubernetes, Cluster API, and Tekton, to test and integrate our platform’s cluster management capabilities on AWS, Azure, and VMware.

Giant Swarm is a fast‑growing open‑source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products.

Your Job

The team is responsible for shared Kubernetes services, such as the pipeline for Kubernetes releases, testing the Kubernetes platform overall, and building automation for bootstrapping new providers. We develop and maintain these services using open source technologies.

You help build and manage the pipeline for Kubernetes releases, including the testing platform for the Kubernetes offering. Other teams use this solution to integrate and release their software.

You take part in our on‑call rotation for alerts and customer incidents. We keep our shifts quiet by fixing repeating problems long‑term or communicating with customers to address specific issues such as misconfigurations.

You work independently on assigned tasks, asking questions and communicating actively with team members and other teams in case of questions and decision points.

Requirements

• You have experience with at least one major CI/CD system, such as Tekton, Jenkins, or Concourse.


• You also have experience with GitOps and GitOps tooling, such as Flux or Argo.


• You have worked extensively and gained operational experience with Kubernetes and at least one of the major cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure.


• You have experience with Go and Bash, and a strong software engineering background.


• You are an experienced Linux user.


• You are comfortable using AI tooling as part of the development process.


• You are comfortable working with developers across other teams to solve problems.


• You are used to deploying to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things.


• We – and our customers – are currently distributed (mostly) around Europe. Your main timezone should be UTC +/- 2.


• We are very active in the Cloud Native / Kubernetes space. If you are as well, that would be a perfect addition.

About us

Every new team member changes the team. We love to learn from each other and we are looking for people who know things we don’t.

Becoming part of Giant Swarm means that, by extension, you also become part of the Cloud Native community. We actively contribute to upstream projects and our quarterly hackathons will give you space to work on out‑of‑the‑box projects. Occasionally, when we, as a team, want to fully focus on one project, we scratch all meetings and routines for a certain time to better focus during our hive‑sprints.

Continuous learning is important to us - we foster this through bi‑yearly personal development talks, a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshops. Our teams are cross‑functional and collaboration is key.

Nothing crazy, but useful Basics: We currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!). We don't count holidays but set a minimum number; You choose your own hard- and software; As a company that has almost, if not more, kids than employees, family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no‑brainer; We pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely; We meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team members; We aim to be fully transparent (finance, salaries) unless it hurts people and trust you, based on this to make the best decisions

A note on the use of AI in our hiring process: real people read every application, no AI screening, no automated filters. We build tools, we use tools, we get excited about tools. We also know better than most that the best ones change what’s possible. What we’re looking for is how you really think, what you’ve built, and how you see the world. Using AI is fine - just don't miss the chance to let us get to know you. After all, humans are way more fun to meet at our onsites!

We failed in exactly describing our way to approach important company elements that can be described with ‘buzzwords’ such as agile mindset, cross‑functional teams, self‑organization, value of the individual or trust & teamwork. However, we truly care about them, we live them and we constantly iterate on them. Some snippets about how we do this are posted in our blog but by far not all of them.

Important note: We are not hiring job descriptions. We hire humans. :) We welcome applications from everybody, regardless ethnic or national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or age.

When you apply for a role at Giant Swarm, we will also consider you for other relevant roles, or ones that may come up in future if this one isn't a good fit at this time.