Senior Software Engineer Platform

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential open-source infrastructure client in Germany seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform team. Our client is building next-generation retrieval infrastructure for AI applications and is rapidly scaling following significant recent funding.

In this remote role, you'll work on the core cloud platform that enables all engineering teams. You'll design and evolve shared services, control-plane components, and internal APIs that power a managed cloud offering and support enterprise-grade deployments. This is a platform engineering role focused on building primitives and abstractions, not day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform services and internal APIs consumed by multiple teams
• Drive architectural initiatives such as gRPC migration, eventing/pub-sub foundations, and platform refactors
• Own and improve control-plane and cluster-api components
• Build platform abstractions that reduce operational and cognitive load for other teams
• Write production-grade Go code for platform services and internal tooling
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enable delivery through platform primitives
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful design
• Support production systems and incident response when needed, with a focus on long-term fixes

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python, or deep expertise in one with willingness to work regularly with both
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design
• Experience building and operating production systems used by other engineers or teams
• Comfortable working cross-team and driving technical alignment
• Ownership mindset and clear communication skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience with gRPC, event-driven architectures, or control-plane systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or cluster-level abstractions
• Background in SaaS, database, or systems-level product companies
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Contributions to open-source projects

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screen to understand your background and technical experience. Once aligned, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communications are managed through our recruiting process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive for senior platform engineering roles in Germany.

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