Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of platform capabilities within a specified scope, managing everything from understanding requirements to delivery and operational enhancements.

• Work closely with stakeholders and coordinate with senior engineers regarding significant architectural decisions that have a broad impact.

• Assess emerging technologies and make practical technical selections.

• Proactively identify opportunities and risks early on, enhancing engineering practices.

• Design, develop, and advance the agentic AI platform.

• Analyze managed cloud services, open-source technologies, and decide between building, buying, or adopting a hybrid approach.

• Create, build, and maintain secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.

• Develop and sustain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Create automation, integrations, and internal platform tools utilizing Python.

• Assist in the deployment and management of workloads on Kubernetes.

• Support automation, integration, and operation of Data and AI workloads on Azure Databricks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical knowledge and experience in agentic-system architecture and platform capabilities, including model and tool integration, MCP, context management, identity, security, observability, evaluation, and governance.

• Strong hands-on experience in designing, building, and managing infrastructure within Microsoft Azure.

• Solid foundational knowledge in infrastructure encompassing compute, networking, storage, identity, security, governance, and containers.

• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly using Terraform.

• Capability to develop maintainable, reusable, and thoroughly tested infrastructure modules.

• Strong background in Python scripting or development for infrastructure automation, platform integrations, and internal tooling.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Azure Databricks, or similar Data and AI platforms, is advantageous.

• Ability to become productive quickly with minimal guidance and training, particularly in areas where direct experience may be limited.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work-from-home options, including the ability to work from anywhere in the EU for up to 20 days annually when office presence is not necessary.

• Support for individual development through a variety of internal and external training programs.

• 30 days of paid vacation each year, plus an additional day off on Rosenmontag.

• Option to take up to 10 days of unpaid vacation after completing one year with the company.

• Membership to Urban Sports Club (M package).

• Engaging team events and regularly scheduled celebrations.