DevOps engineer for a travel app

Polarsteps; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 84,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity: Polarsteps SAR Plan

Annual travel flight or train

MacBook for work

Hybrid work model

30 days vacation

Culture Days

Development budget

Pension plan

Daily office lunches

Office in downtown Amsterdam

Travel cost reimbursement

Polarsteps Travel Books

Job summary

Polarsteps in Amsterdam is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack, including S3 and PostgreSQL databases, and to spot bottlenecks in architecture with Engineering and other stakeholders.

You will review, improve and maintain observability, monitoring and alerting, manage incidents, and keep infrastructure and troubleshooting docs up to date while strengthening platform security and privacy. The role offers equity, travel perks, a MacBook, and hybrid work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering.
• Experience automating infrastructure on AWS.
• Fluent in shell scripting, Python and Terraform / OpenTofu.
• Experience monitoring and scaling a Python + PostgreSQL stack under load.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of the AWS stack (S3, PostgreSQL).
• Identify bottlenecks and plan improvements with Engineering and stakeholders.
• Review and maintain observability, monitoring and alerting.
• Manage incidents and keep infrastructure docs up to date.
• Strengthen platform security and privacy; drive SSO rollout.

Skills

DevOps experience

SRE mindset

Automation scripting

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

ECS

RabbitMQ

TypeScript (frontend)

Job description

Описание:

We're an Amsterdam-based team of 100 (and counting), with 25+ nationalities and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our collective travel belts. What we have in common, beyond very well-worn passports, is this: We want to change the way people travel. That's exactly what we're doing, with the app that lets you plan, track, and relive every trip. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already. For us, this is just the beginning.

Задачи:

Own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack, including S3 and our PostgreSQL databases. Spot bottlenecks in our architecture and scaling, both for users and for developer experience. You’ll create and execute a plan with Engineering and other stakeholders. Review, improve and maintain our observability, monitoring and alerting. Manage and respond to incidents, and keep our infrastructure and troubleshooting documentation up to date. Strengthen platform security and privacy, working alongside our external security lead. Lead initiatives like rolling out company-wide SSO and managing our VPN. Support our Data team with the infrastructure behind our analytics stack.

Требования:

• 5+ years as a DevOps Engineer, SRE or Platform Engineer.
• Experience automating infrastructure and processes on AWS.
• Fluency in shell scripting, Python and Terraform / OpenTofu.
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting and scaling a similar stack (Python, PostgreSQL/RDS) under growing load.
• Comfort making changes to backend code when automation calls for it.
• A pragmatic mindset: you know when to cut corners and when to build something that lasts.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical people, helping them reach decisions on complex trade-offs.
• Autonomy and a collaborative nature.
• You’re happy setting up your own processes while working with everyone.
• Knowledgeable of platform security best practices.
• Будет плюсом: Bonus points if you’ve worked with Nix, Kubernetes, ArgoCD or ECS, RabbitMQ, or TypeScript on the frontend.

Условия:

• Salary range: Between EUR 84.000 and 99.000 gross per year incl 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week). Where you land in the range depends on your experience and skills, to be evaluated during the interview process.
• Equity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.
• A yearly free flight or train to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.
• A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.
• Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home, as you see fit.
• An extensive home office set-up — everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.
• 30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you).
• Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you, but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.
• The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.
• A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!
• A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.
• Delicious daily office lunches.
• Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.
• A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.
• Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.