Senior Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure (all genders)

SYNAOS; Deutschland; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible work arrangements (remote/ons

Modern Hanover office for hybrid work

Up to 180 days remote from abroad

Competitive compensation with benefits

30 days paid vacation

Modern hardware & software

Descrizione del lavoro

SYNAOS GmbH is seeking a seasoned Platform & Infrastructure engineer to scale and secure our cloud infrastructure. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, write operators in Go and Python, and drive GitOps with Argo CD across multiple environments.

You will contribute to the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotation. We support flexible work (office, remote, or hybrid) with a modern Hanover office and ISO 27001/TISAX framework.

Competenze

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, including 3+ years in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes: cluster operations, workload management, troubleshooting at scale.
• Helm chart authoring: writing, packaging, and maintaining charts — not just consuming them.
• GitOps experience with Argo CD or an equivalent tool (Flux, etc.).
• Working knowledge of AWS (EKS and supporting services such as IAM, VPC, RDS, S3).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Proficiency in Go or Python — we write custom operators and internal tooling in both.
• Experience owning production incidents end-to-end — response, mitigation, and postmortem.
• Strong English communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• German language skills (helpful for customer site interactions).

Mansioni

• Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform across multiple clusters and manage Helm charts in OCI registry.
• Drive technical designs for platform initiatives and defend recommendations to production.
• Harden security posture: workload identity, runtime security, image scanning, secrets management.
• Write and maintain custom Kubernetes operators and tooling in Go and Python.
• Maintain observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, OpenSearch; build dashboards and alerts.
• Keep GitLab CI/CD pipelines fast and reliable; coordinate cross-team changes and migrations.
• Operate and evolve AWS infrastructure (EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3) and drive cost-efficiency with OpenCost.
• Own incidents end-to-end from alert to postmortem; mentor engineers and participate in hiring.
• Be the infrastructure partner for product teams; participate in on-call rotation.
• Advise on architecture and code reviews; help evaluate technical candidates.
• Be a friendly, responsive partner when things are unclear or broken.

Conoscenze

Kubernetes

Helm charting

GitOps

AWS

Terraform

Go/Python

Incident ownership

English communication

German language + Interactions

Strumenti

Argo CD

Kyverno

Kubebuilder

Kargo

Grafana

OpenSearch

Prometheus

Descrizione del lavoro

We are a leading SaaS provider in our field and operate a large number of customer
environments in our cloud. To ensure that these environments run smoothly, we are looking for
you! Together with your colleagues on the Platform & Infrastructure team, you will be
responsible for the scalability, security, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure — covering
AWS, Kubernetes, observability, and the internal developer platform that our product teams build
on. We ship continuously — on average 150 deployments to production every month — and
your work is what keeps that pace fast, safe, and sustainable. You will actively contribute to
shaping our technical roadmap, mentor engineers around you, and help cultivate a progressive
and learning environment.

• Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform across multiple clusters: manage Helm chart deployments via an OCI registry hosting 40+ charts, enforce policy-as-code with Kyverno, and operate GitOps workflows through Argo CD ApplicationSets with progressive delivery orchestrated by Kargo
• Drive technical designs for platform initiatives: scope the problem, propose multiple solutions, assess their trade-offs, and defend your recommendation — then see it through to production
• Harden the platform's security posture: workload identity via OIDC, runtime security, image scanning and secrets management
• Write and maintain custom Kubernetes operators and internal tooling in Go and Python that multiply the team's leverage across clusters — we run Zalando postgres-operator alongside our own operators
• Maintain and improve our observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, OpenSearch): build dashboards and alerts that give product teams real visibility into their services
• Keep GitLab CI/CD pipelines fast and reliable — they power ~150 production deployments per month; execute cross-team changes (rollouts, database migrations, certificate rotations) with care and clear communication
• Operate and evolve AWS infrastructure (EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3) including dedicated customer environments in their own AWS accounts; drive cost-efficiency initiatives tracked via OpenCost
• Own incidents end-to-end: from alert to fix to postmortem
• Raise the team's bar through thorough code and architecture reviews, mentor less experienced engineers, and help us assess technical candidates in interviews
• Be the infrastructure partner product teams come to when things are unclear or broken
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation

Must-have

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, including 3+ years in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes: cluster operations, workload management, troubleshooting at scale
• Helm chart authoring: writing, packaging, and maintaining charts — not just consuming them
• GitOps experience with Argo CD or an equivalent tool (Flux, etc.)
• Working knowledge of AWS (EKS and supporting services such as IAM, VPC, RDS, S3)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Proficiency in Go or Python — we write custom operators and internal tooling in both
• Experience owning production incidents end-to-end — response, mitigation, and postmortem
• Strong English communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Nice-to-have

• Kubernetes operator development experience (Kubebuilder or similar)
• Progressive delivery tooling (Kargo, Argo Rollouts, or equivalent)
• Policy-as-code experience (Kyverno or OPA)
• Runtime security tooling (Falco or equivalent)
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, or equivalent)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred)
• Experience mentoring engineers or participating in technical hiring
• German language skills (helpful for customer site interactions)

On-Call

You’ll participate in an on-call rotation. Incidents require fast response and clear communication. On-call burden is tracked and addressed through rotation and capacity planning. Join our team and simply be yourself – we celebrate diversity! Our entrepreneurial culture is driven by a talented and passionate team. We offer full flexibility to suit your needs, whether you prefer working remotely, in the office, or in a hybrid setup. And if you'd like to work from abroad, you can do so for up to 180 days. But that's not all! We also provide a competitive compensation package and 30 days of paid vacation to help you recharge. And with a generous tech budget, you can choose the hardware and software that suits you best.

• Flexible working arrangements (remote, office, or hybrid)
• Modern office in the heart of Hanover for hybrid work
• Up to 180 days (6 months) of remote work from abroad
• Competitive compensation with benefits offering
• 30 days (6 weeks) of paid vacation
• Modern hardware and software solutions

Ambitious, promising, and always on the move: that's SYNAOS. We are a team of around 100
people from more than 15 nations, ranked among the top employers of 2,500+ German startups.
We stand together and work toward the same goal: to revolutionize an entire industry. Our
platform runs production-critical operations 24/7 for customers like Volkswagen, shipping to
production around 150 times a month — and we take security seriously: we are ISO 27001
certified and a TISAX participant. Can you identify with our principles?

• We go above & beyond for our customers
• We always push forward
• We make informed decisions
• We challenge each other and win together
• We seize ownership
• We make bold moves

SYNAOS GmbH

Liane Hagelganz

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