Platform Engineer
$80,000–$125,000 year
HybridMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Job Summary
Own our platform foundations end-to-end, building secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and maintaining CI/CD pipelines on GitHub. Design and operate infrastructure using Terraform with clean modules and automated validation while driving availability, scalability, and resilience through deployment strategies and capacity planning. Improve developer experience via golden paths and internal tooling, implementing security-by-default practices including least privilege IAM and secrets management. Establish observability and reliability practices such as SLOs, monitoring, and postmortems that scale with the team. Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and maintain high delivery velocity as Zalion grows.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production
- Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews
- Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops
- A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs)
- Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path
- A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs
- 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus)
Desired Qualifications
- startup/scale-up experience
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