Senior DevOps Engineer

Leapsome; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid office in Berlin

Remote up to 50 days/year

Health & fitness benefits

L&D budget

Zusammenfassung

Kittl is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Platform team in Berlin. You will help build a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation across AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, and CI/CD to empower product teams in an AI-native environment.

You will partner with backend, frontend, data, and AI squads to remove bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize deployment and operation practices. This is a hands-on, impact-driven role with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifikationen

• Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) production experience required.
• 5+ years in distributed systems / DevOps.
• CI/CD pipelines with reliable releases.
• IAM and secrets management knowledge.
• Observability, metrics, logging, tracing experience.
• Ability to drive initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes.

Aufgaben

• Improve CI reliability and developer productivity across pipelines.
• Strengthen observability dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Operate and evolve AWS EKS; ensure safe deployments.
• Drive infrastructure automation with Pulumi and patterns.
• Enhance security, access control, and secrets handling.
• Identify cost drivers; improve visibility and ownership.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes & cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Security mindset

Collaborative approach

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

TypeScript/Node.js

Jobbeschreibung

# Senior DevOps EngineerApply now---DepartmentEngineeringLocationBerlinWork arrangementHybrid**A little about us *** **AI-native design:** Kittl is becoming the AI-native, operating system for creative businesses. We give small brands the creative firepower to look credible and get from idea to launch-ready, with no agency and no design team* **Rapid growth:** 11 million users since 2022* **Diverse team:** 120+ people from 30+ countries, with offices in Berlin and Düsseldorf and teammates working remotely* **Truly product-led company:** Engineers, Product Managers and Designers sit at the core of what we build* **Strong backing:** Raised ~$50M, led by IVP with Left Lane Capital and Speedinvest. IVP has also backed Figma, Slack, and DropboxLearn more: www.kittl.com/career**Your role at Kittl**As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence. In this role, you will partner closely with engineers across backend, frontend, data, and AI teams to remove operational bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on role with clear impact, directly contributing to outcomes such as more reliable CI pipelines, faster incident detection, and improved infrastructure cost visibility.**What you'll do*** **Improve CI reliability & developer productivity:** Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed* **Strengthen observability & incident readiness:** Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster* **Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform:** Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure* **Drive infrastructure automation:** Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams* **Improve security & governance:** Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows* **Optimize infrastructure costs:** Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams**What you’ll need*** **Kubernetes & cloud expertise:** At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems* **CI/CD expertise:** Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability* **Infrastructure as Code:** Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns* **Observability knowledge:** Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana* **Security mindset:** Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices* **Collaborative approach**: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes**Interview process*** Recruiter interview (30 min)* Technical interview I(60 min)* Technical interview II (60 min)* Interview with CTO (30 min) & cross-functional team interview (30 min)* Bar raiser interview with Head of Data (45 min)**Our core tech stack:** AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Docker, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript/Node.js**You'll do well here if *** You pick up problems nobody assigned you. If something's broken and no one has stepped up, you're the person who does* You'd rather make the call and adjust than wait until you're certain. Velocity is the only advantage that can't be copied* You want to own a domain deeply enough that people rely on your judgement in it, whether or not you manage anyone* You'll argue for your position and commit fully when the call goes the other way* You care about details other people would call excessive. Our standards are higher than most people think is reasonable, on purpose* You use AI constantly and still own every word you ship**It's probably not the right fit if *** You need consensus before you move* You'd rather specialise narrowly than own a whole problem end to end* You find it draining to have your thinking challenged in the open. We do that a lot, and it's sometimes uncomfortable*Every new hire should raise the bar in some meaningful way, not just fill a seat. We hold to that, and it's why you'll be working with the most talented people from all over the world.***Benefits *** **Maximise your impact:** Real ownership of what you ship. Whether you lead a team or lead through craft, we back you to do the work that matters most* **Shape AI-native creative work:** Kittl sits where AI, design, and commerce meet. You'll build the tools that decide what professional looks like for our next million users* **AI enablement:** We use AI across the company, not just in the product* **Passionate team:** Quarterly hackathons for experimenting with new concepts, pushing boundaries, and delivering the next big thing* **Kittl Week:** Each year, our global team gathers for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun* **Work-life balance:** 30 vacation days a year, plus public holidays* **Hybrid working style:** 3 days a week in our office in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, the rest of the week from home* **Remote work:** On top of that, work from anywhere in the world for up to 50 days (10 weeks) a year, as long as you're reachable during core hours* **VESOP:** Enrollment in our Virtual Employee Stock Option Plan. When Kittl grows in value, you share in it* **Lunch:** Daily chef-prepared meals in the office* **Mobility:** Your monthly BVG ticket, fully covered* **Health & fitness:** Urban Sports Club M membership* **Learning & development:** Annual L&D budget for your professional growth* **German classes:** Online group courses at every level