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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff IT Engineer for Automation & AI transformation (Remote) - **Company:** SoSafe GmbH - **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, Github, Information Technology Operations, Workflow Management Systems, Zapier, Information Technology, Virtual Agents, Software Coding - **Published:** July 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a49d707d21b9f6a1 ## About the Role * Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal Engineer level, ideally within an established, successful, cloud-native hypergrowth SaaS environment * Hands-on builder and systems thinker - A background that includes hands-on coding, ideally in a platform or SRE team. IT experience is secondary, we need builders who can help others build better * A track record of successful AI-native adoption, showcasing how you've successfully moved workflows beyond experimental prompts into robust, production-grade automated workflows or agents * Deep technical mastery of at least some of: infrastructure-as-code, modern CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions) and enterprise-grade workflow orchestration (e.g., n8n, Zapier) * A pragmatic engineering mindset: You understand that while agentic working is fast and flexible, it brings significant utilization costs; you know how to design hybrid architectures that balance speed with financial efficiency. When faced with a complex problem, you instinctively break it down * Great leadership and communication skills: The biggest challenge is always people, not technology. You treat internal teams as your customers and excel at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical "citizen coders" and executive stakeholders alike. ## Description Are you a visionary Staff Engineer, excited about pushing the boundaries of automation and artificial intelligence deployed across a whole company? We're seeking an exceptional candidate to join our IT Engineering team to build the foundation for our AI-native future, in one of the industry's fastest growing SaaS scale-ups. Things no-one seems to know yet: * How to make traditional automation & orchestration tools consistently useful across a whole business * How to balance traditional tools against foundation models and agentic working * How to enable (and protect) citizen builders to use spec-driven design and self-built AI-agents to actually change the organisation, reliably, safely and at scale We want you to solve these problems. Here's how you'll make a difference: * Test-bed: Architect, build and iterate a toolchain fusing traditional automation tools (n8n, etc) with spec-driven design and agentic working, test out on IT and Security * Iterate: Advocate, mentor and enable other early adopter teams to use our platforms, get value, provide feedback, iterate the platform * Standardise: Build self-sustaining cultural practices across the organisation, enable whole departments, scale the platform for everyone * Drive the evolution of IT operations towards an all-encompassing *-as-code infrastructure model through hands-on architecture and design * Contribute to the IT/Sec Operating System as we move wholesale to build-not-buy teams * Mentor and level up the existing IT engineering team, then whole departments, serving as a technical guide to accelerate skills transfer and foster a strong, collaborative engineering culture * Champion and advocate for our shared automation and AI platforms and methodologies, driving cross-departmental adoption to break down operational silos. ## Related Videos - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Guiding Agentic AI with Vue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2033-guiding-agentic-ai-with-vue) - [HR ROBO SAPIENS: Decoding AI Agents and Workflow Automation for Modern Recruitment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1470-hr-robo-sapiens-decoding-ai-agents-and-workflow-automation-for-modern-recruitment) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [AI in Leadership: How Technology is Reshaping Executive Roles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1705-ai-in-leadership-how-technology-is-reshaping-executive-roles) - [How to Stop Your Agents From Going Rogue - Arnav Gupta](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2152-how-to-stop-your-agents-from-going-rogue-arnav-gupta) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Are Software Engineer Wages Being Pushed Down? 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