Senior Software Engineer, Internal DevEx

Aiven; Finland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Hybrid work policy

Equipment you need

Professional development budget

Wellbeing support (global EAP)

Global time off commitment (parental &

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

Aiven is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a brand-new team dedicated to internal developer experience. You will influence how engineers write, test, and ship code, from development environments to CI/CD pipelines, and you will build or select the best tooling for the organization.

You should be a generalist who masters software engineering practices, handles shell scripting, and can manage cloud infrastructure while helping to grow a team from day one.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software engineering experience shipping and maintaining production software.
• Strong ownership mindset; you fix flaky builds and streamline pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, containers, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Fluency in English, written and verbal.
• Observability tooling knowledge is a nice-to-have.
• UX sensibility and treating engineers as users is a nice-to-have.
• Familiarity with open-source data technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse).

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize concrete problems with engineering teams and implement fixes.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Build developer tooling or adopt best-in-class tools and drive adoption.
• Set sensible defaults across the organization (templates, testing conventions, docs).
• Help shape how humans and AI agents develop safely alongside each other.

Skills

Software engineering

Ownership

Linux

Containers

IaC

English fluency

Observability

UX sensibility

Open-source data tech

Job description

We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

The Role:

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to a new team we are building that focuses entirely on internal developer experience. You'll shape how Aiven engineers write, test and ship code, from development environments and internal tooling to CI/CD pipelines. Every improvement you make lands directly in the daily work of every engineering team at Aiven. We want a generalist who knows software engineering best practices, is equally comfortable writing a fast, robust shell script and managing cloud infrastructure, and wants to build up a team from day one.

What You'll Do:

• Work with engineering teams to identify and prioritise concrete problems, then fix them.
• Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines.
• Build new developer tooling, or pick the best existing tools, and drive their adoption.
• Set sensible defaults for the whole organisation, such as project templates, testing conventions and documentation.
• Help shape how humans and AI agents develop safely side by side.

What We're Looking For:

• Professional Experience: Several years in professional software engineering teams, shipping and maintaining software in production.
• Ownership Instinct: You're the person who fixed the flaky build, wrote the onboarding script or cleaned up the pipeline because it was slowing your team down, even when nobody asked.
• Infrastructure: Hands‑on experience with Linux, containers and Infrastructure as Code.
• Communication: Fluency in English, written and verbal.
• Observability (nice-to-have): Experience with observability tooling.
• UX Sensibility (nice-to-have): Familiarity with user experience or product design, or a habit of treating your fellow engineers as users.
• Open‑Source Data Technologies (nice-to-have): Familiarity with open source data technologies such as Apache Kafka®, PostgreSQL® or ClickHouse®.

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven's equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country‑specific benefits for our global cast.

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non‑discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at [e-mail].