Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

Mission:
Help us build trustworthy product experiences that solve real customer problems on payroll, tax and accounting. Own outcomes, not just output—balancing speed and craftsmanship to deliver value that compounds using state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. 

This role follows a hybrid schedule, requiring at least two days each week in the office in Berlin to collaborate effectively with the team

Your Tasks:
What you'll do
• Design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability and security
• Own our CI/CD pipelines end-to-end — from design to rollout and continuous improvement
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices across the engineering team
• Collaborate closely with product and AI engineers to enable fast, safe and frequent deployments
• Monitor system performance, lead incident response and run post-mortems to keep raising the bar
• Instrument infrastructure with observability tooling — logs, metrics, traces — and act on what you see
• Ensure security and compliance standards are met across all environments
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investments
• Drive simplicity: reduce complexity for developers and keep systems easy to reason about

What makes it special• High ownership: you'll have a real say in how we build and scale our infrastructure
• Your decisions directly impact the reliability and performance of a platform used by thousands of SMEs across Europe
• Tight feedback loops with engineers, founders and stakeholders
• Pragmatic pace: ship, learn, iterate

Core responsibilities:
Experience & Mindset
• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure roles, ideally at a startup or high-growth company
• Proven track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end and driving measurable impact
• Comfortable with ambiguity — you take initiative, manage your own time, and leave systems and teams better than you found them
• You turn complexity into simplicity, make good decisions reversible, and build plans others can follow
• Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot or Claude — and able to audit and validate AI-generated code
• Experience in fast-scaling environments is a strong plus
• German language skills are a strong plus

Technical Skills
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP preferred)
• Containerisation and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD or similar
• Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces; familiarity with SLOs and incident response
• Security basics: authN/authZ, secrets management, threat modelling, secure coding practices
• Familiarity with Python is a strong plus, our engineers work heavily with Python and Claude

The process:
1. Intro Call with our Talent Team
2. Deep dive Interview with our CTO & co-founder
3. On-site Coding Interview at our Berlin office with the engineering team
4. Founder Conversation with our CEO & co-founder

Our offer:
• Internal tooling and resources purpose-built to support agentic AI development at scale
• 28 vacation days per year with December 24th and 31st each counting as half days
• Urban Sports Club membership or Deutschland Ticket, your choice
• Laptop of your choice: MacBook or Windows Pro
• Company pension plan (betriebliche Altersvorsorge)
• Modern office in the heart of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, steps away from Mauerpark
• Hybrid working format, the best of both worlds: deep focus when you need it, and genuine team time when it counts
• Weekly team lunches provided by us, office BBQs and a dinner budget for late office nights past 8pm
• A team of 50+ (and growing!) ambitious, diverse people learning and building together!