Senior Cloud Development Engineer - STACKIT (m/w/d)

STACKIT; Dresden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

STACKIT in Dresden seeks an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer to design, build and operate scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components. You will lead automation, control plane development, and advise on technology strategy within cross-functional DevOps teams.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in infrastructure-level programming (C/C++/Go/Python/Rust) and strong cloud networking knowledge, with English fluency and German a plus.

Qualifications

• Educational background in computer science, software engineering, IT, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Go, Python, or Rust for infrastructure programming.
• Strong cloud architecture and networking knowledge (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/2).
• DevOps & CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

• Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of cloud/virtualization tech.
• Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, operate scalable cloud services and IaaS/PaaS components.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement IaC workflows.
• Control Plane & Microservices: Build Kubernetes operators and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Advise management on technology strategy and roadmap.
• SRE: Contribute to performance, capacity planning, incident management.
• Agile Collaboration: Work with DevOps/DevSecOps teams including security and product owners.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Networking

Programming

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenStack

Ceph

Istio

Cilium

Job description

• Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of our cloud and virtualization technology.
• Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning using code-driven workflows (IaC).
• Control Plane & Microservices: Design and develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and RESTful/gRPC APIs to control cloud resource lifecycles.
• Advise Management on technology strategy: Help to develop our technology roadmap
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Participate in performance optimization, capacity planning, fault recovery, and incident management to maintain high availability guarantees.
• Agile Collaboration: Work closely in cross-functional DevOps/DevSecOps teams with Cloud Architects, Security Engineers, and Product Owners.

Your Tasks

• Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of our cloud and virtualization technology.
• Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning using code-driven workflows (IaC).
• Control Plane & Microservices: Design and develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and RESTful/gRPC APIs to control cloud resource lifecycles.
• Advise Management on technology strategy: Help to develop our technology roadmap
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Participate in performance optimization, capacity planning, fault recovery, and incident management to maintain high availability guarantees.
• Agile Collaboration: Work closely in cross-functional DevOps/DevSecOps teams with Cloud Architects, Security Engineers, and Product Owners.

Your Profile

• Must have
  • Educational Background: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Software Development: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in C, C++, Go (Golang), Python, or Rust for infrastructure-level programming.
  • Cloud Architecture & Networking: Solid understanding of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/2), Load Balancing, Ingress Controllers, and Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Cilium).
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Mastery of modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and GitOps principles.
  • Language Skills: Business fluent in English (oral and written); German skills are a plus.
• Nice to have
  • Experience with open-source cloud management platforms such as OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder) or Ceph distributed storage.
  • Cloud security fundamentals (IAM, zero-trust network design, encryption at rest and in transit).
  • Active contributions to open-source cloud-native projects (e.g., CNCF ecosystem).