IoT Cloud Platform Engineer: Scale & Observability

1KOMMA5°; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

1KOMMA5° is seeking a Senior IoT Cloud Engineer to own the cloud side of our distributed IoT platform, ingesting and routing messages between gateways and cloud services. You’ll ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency as the fleet grows, enabling product teams to ship features faster.

You will work at the intersection of cloud infra, messaging, data, and IoT engineering, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a scalable virtual power plant and insightful fleet analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating cloud/distributed backend systems in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and modern cloud-native operations.
• Solid understanding of MQTT and device-to-cloud messaging patterns at scale, including back-pressure, QoS, and fan-out.
• Experience designing and running observability pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for large-scale distributed systems, and turning them into actionable monitors.
• Comfortable working with data and BI tooling — writing SQL, modeling data, and building dashboards that drive decisions.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and platform engineering practices.
• A strong reliability and security mindset.
• Ability to guide architectural decisions and navigate across embedded, hardware, data, and product teams.
• Agile, product-oriented mindset and a strong team player with a bias for action and ownership.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset.
• Clear and effective communicator in English (German is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of our systems at the intersection of Cloud Services and residential IoT Gateways.
• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes-based IoT Cloud Platform, including deployment, scaling, and hardening of connectivity and fleet services.
• Develop and run our Eclipse Hono stack as the messaging backbone between gateways and the cloud.
• Design, build and operate features around fleet management enabling the lifecycle of gateways from production line to field.
• Integrate tightly with Mender to operate safe OTA rollouts across the fleet.
• Contribute to load and resilience tests to prove the platform scales and to find limits before our customers do.
• Build and own the observability pipelines for the IoT Platform and turn metrics into automated monitors, alerts, and self-healing mechanisms.
• Build data pipelines and BI models to turn raw data into fleet insights.
• Work collaboratively with product managers, data engineers, IoT engineers, as well as cloud engineers to understand problems, support discoveries, and create solutions enabling a scalable virtual power plant.
• Foster a culture of experiment-driven innovation within the team.

Skills

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud platforms

MQTT

Device-to-cloud

Observability

SQL & BI

TypeScript

Java

Go

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE

Tools

Eclipse Hono

Mender

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

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Job description

1KOMMA5° is seeking a Senior IoT Cloud Engineer to own the cloud side of our distributed IoT platform, ingesting and routing messages between gateways and cloud services. You’ll ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency as the fleet grows, enabling product teams to ship features faster.

You will work at the intersection of cloud infra, messaging, data, and IoT engineering, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a scalable virtual power plant and insightful fleet analytics.