(Junior) Infrastructure Engineer (m/f/x) – Ceph – Object Storage

Hetzner Cloud GmbH; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 77,643 - 98,766; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Budget for personal development (€2,5k

Prepaid card €50/month

Offsite events (Christmas/Oktoberfest)

Wellpass fitness benefits

Childcare support

Workation possibilities

Bike leasing

Referral bonus

Free drinks and snacks

Job summary

Hetzner Cloud GmbH is seeking a (Junior) Infrastructure Engineer (m/f/x) with a passion for Ceph and object storage. The role involves engaging with the Ceph community, contributing back to open source, and helping maintain and scale large Ceph deployments.

You will participate in on-call rotations and may work remotely within Germany while collaborating closely with our Munich office team. The annual gross salary ranges from €68,000 to €86,500 depending on experience and scope.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic about Ceph and object storage.
• Active or willing to contribute to Ceph open source projects.
• Comfort with low-level troubleshooting and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Engage with the Ceph community and contribute to Ceph and the Rados Gateway.
• Work with the Ceph issue tracker to resolve issues and improve our setup.
• Build tooling for maintenance and debugging.
• Troubleshoot bugs and work hands-on with the cluster hardware.

Skills

Ceph

Python

Bash

Go

Open source contribution

Tools

Ceph tooling

Job description

Our Hetzner Cloud team consists of around 80 employees and works both remotely across Germany and from our office in Munich (Unterföhring).

Object Storage is the newest addition to Hetzner's portfolio of storage products. Although it is a relatively new product, it is already an impressive storage system, consisting of multiple clusters with dozens of petabytes of capacity.

We use Ceph as the underlying storage system. To help us operate and scale our large Ceph setups, we're looking for an (Junior) Infrastructure Engineer (m/f/x) who is enthusiastic about Ceph and enjoys being part of its open source community, someone who likes engaging with the Ceph community, contributing back where possible, and who is ideally already active in the community themselves.

This position includes an on-call rotation to maintain our services, which can be performed remotely within Germany.

The annual salary for this position is betwee n €68,000 and €86,500 gross. The exact salary level will be determined based on professional experience and the scope of responsibilities.

What you’ll do

You’ll engage with the Ceph community, help improve Ceph and the Rados Gateway, and contribute your work back to the open source project

You’ll work with the Ceph issue tracker and community to help resolve issues and improve our setup

You’ll build tooling for maintenance and debugging

You’ll troubleshoot bugs and performance issues and work hands‑on with our cluster hardware

Your profile

You're enthusiastic about Ceph and object storage

You've already contributed, or would love to start contributing, to an open source Ceph project

You enjoy low‑level troubleshooting and getting to the bottom of tricky issues

Knowledge of Python, Bash, or Go is a plus

You are business fluent in English, German is a plus

Mac, PC or Linux — whatever you prefer, we provide it for you.

You will work with a casual team in a friendly and pleasant working environment.

Flexibility

Whether it's working from home or flexible working hours outside of our core working hours — your needs matter.

Further training

We offer a budget of EUR 2,500 per employee per year to invest in your personal development.

HelloBonnie

In addition to an attractive compensation, you will get a prepaid credit card that we will top up for you monthly with EUR 50.

Events

We highly value and promote in‑person meetings such as our offsite, our Christmas party, Oktoberfest, and events on other occasions.

EGYM

We want to invest in the health of our employees and partner with EGYM Wellpass to provide an attractive offer for a wide range of fitness options all across Germany.

We pay part of the childcare costs until your child goes to school.

Workation

You want to combine work and vacation? We want to make this possible for you!

Company holidays

With us, 24 December and 31 Decembr er are annual holidays. This means, you don’t need to sacrifice your own vacation days.

Bikeleasing

Exercise keeps us fit. For this reason, you can lease a bicycle of your choice through us.

Recommend a friend Bonus

Our way to thank you if you recommended a new colleague to us.

All-round care

For those who love working in the office: Free drinks and snacks, air‑conditioned office with height‑adjustable desks, charging station for electric cars and much more.