STACKIT Platform Services - Observability Suite - Software Engineer

Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group., * You design and develop components of the Observability Suite as sovereign cloud services, focusing on the integration of the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).

• You extend our system architecture by identifying and implementing relevant open-source projects (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) to capture logs, metrics, and traces.
• You develop Kubernetes operators to automate the life cycle of cloud services
• You develop and maintain REST APIs that allow our customers to programmatically access and control their monitoring and alerting lifecycles.
• You take ownership in an agile “You Build It - You Run It” environment, acting as a bridge between development and SRE.
• You conduct complex root cause analyses using logs, tracing and metrics - eat your own dogfood - identifying bottlenecks & issues and implementing sustainable fixes.

• You have deep enthusiasm for Software Engineering, Cloud-Native Observability and SRE
• You actively own the entire software development lifecycle, go and k8s being your bread and butter - k8s operators preferably also a part of your arsenal
• You are experienced with - or eager to master - the Grafana ecosystem
• You understand the observability needs in today’s cloud environment services and know how to instrument them effectively.
• You enjoy discovering new technologies (e.g. OpenTelemetry) and are excited about sharing your knowledge with the community and the team.
• You don’t just look at dashboards; you understand the underlying data structures and how to optimize them for high-cardinality environments.

Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.