Platform Engineer

🚀 Join the team that's revolutionizing property management!

About Our Client:

Our client is a dynamic German-based start-up developing a cutting-edge SAAS-ERP system for property management companies in German-speaking countries. 🏢

They set out to take on this challenge and reshape a stale industry by simplifying complex workflows and making the lives of property managers much easier. At the current state, they’ve already reached an important milestone in building an MVP and being live with pilot customers since the beginning of 2024, but the journey to the envisaged summit of delivering a truly unique and innovative operating platform for their clients has just begun. 🚀

About the Position:

We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join our client's team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and managing the infrastructure that supports their software applications and services. This role requires expertise in cloud technologies, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure their platforms are reliable, scalable, and secure.

You will be implementing and ensuring efficient/performant workflows & delivering new features, across the stack (frontend and backend), and taking proactive standing in technically designing new solutions. 💻

You will be efficiently collaborating with Developers, POs, Designers, and Customer support (around 20 people) in an environment of continuous delivery of a high-quality product. 💡

Activities will include:

⏩ Ensure performant, cost-efficient, and secure operation of the production environment (currently: AWS managed by Terraform)

⏩ Maintain backup services & practice disaster recovery scenarios

⏩ Assist & resolve critical service degradations

⏩ Provide the internal teams with well-maintained tooling (currently: servers/k8s deployments managed by Ansible)

⏩ Ensure the CI/CD pipeline runs stable for feature teams to work efficiently

⏩ Build data-connected workflows to support the Datadriven work mode of departments

⏩ Develop the CI/CD pipeline’s QA Automation

⏩ Guide team with best practices

You shall bring:

✅ 5+ years of experience as a software engineer having worked with backend technologies such as Java (preferred) or C#, Python, etc.

✅ Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.

✅ Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

✅ Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

✅ Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).

✅ Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).

✅ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI). and understanding of QA automation principles and can apply them to assist the team with high-quality feature delivery

✅ Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).

✅ You are fluent/comfortable in English (cross-border team communication) and willing to work in an international team

Nice to have:

⏩ Previous experience working at a startup is a big plus

⏩ Experience and passion for solving complex performance issues that involve rearchitecting and modifying the backend

The general tech stack of the project is:

🖥 Java

🖥 React

🖥 Microservice architecture with Kafka(-streams)

🖥 Docker-based CI/CD processes

🖥 AWS/kubernetes/terraform

We provide:

💪 Assistance in setting up the project/integrating with the team

💪 Guidance while onboarding

💪 Support in any aspect of your activities

💪 Free choice of hardware

💪 Perks like private health insurance

💪 Regular team events

💪 Possibility to work remote

Some final words

You will be joining a dynamic and crossborder project team in Cluj, working closely together with product owners, UX/UI, and a development team of 10 developers.

If this sounds interesting, please send us your CV - we are looking forward to meeting you! 🌟