Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer — Remote (Germany)

Join; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WellPass fitness membership

VSOP program participation

Travel and accommodation to Leipzig (€

Job summary

MAIA is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of our production infrastructure, deploying and evolving Linux-based systems, containers, and API gateways across multi-cloud environments. You will drive automation, CI/CD, and observability, while ensuring security and ISO 27001 readiness.

You will work closely with software engineers and leadership in a fully remote German setup, with future expansion into European infrastructure and AI inference options.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience operating production SaaS systems on Linux servers.
• Experience with Docker and Docker Compose in production and knowledge of reverse proxies/API gateways like Traefik or Kong.
• Practical PostgreSQL experience including backups, restores, performance analysis, and pooling.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
• Managed infrastructure with Terraform, Pulumi, or comparable IaC tooling.
• Operated an observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Sentry, etc.).
• Understanding of security foundations: IAM, least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, patching.
• Strong English communication; German is a plus but not required.
• Knowledge of LLM serving trade-offs and AI infrastructure concepts.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of MAIA’s production infrastructure.
• Make deployments safe, repeatable, and engineer-friendly with IaC and CI/CD improvements.
• Operate and optimize PostgreSQL in production, including backups and capacity planning.
• Develop and improve a self-hosted observability stack with metrics, logs, and traces.
• Strengthen security across infrastructure, including IAM, secrets management, TLS, and patching.
• Design ISO 27001 controls with auditable evidence generation.
• Contribute to AI infrastructure, evaluating model and inference providers, latency, and cost.
• Explore self-hosted LLM inference options where valuable, including GPU setups.
• Improve incident response, document playbooks, and enhance operational resilience.
• Improve internal developer experience with clear interfaces and automated workflows.
• Identify cost drivers and support data-driven build, buy, and hosting choices.

Skills

Linux administration

Docker in production

API gateways

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / IaC

Observability stack

Security fundamentals

LLM serving

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

MAIA is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of our production infrastructure, deploying and evolving Linux-based systems, containers, and API gateways across multi-cloud environments. You will drive automation, CI/CD, and observability, while ensuring security and ISO 27001 readiness.

You will work closely with software engineers and leadership in a fully remote German setup, with future expansion into European infrastructure and AI inference options.