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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Platform Engineer (SRE) - **Company:** Jobgether - **Location:** Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €90,000.0 - €110,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Storage, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Reliability Engineering, Software Deployment, Transcoding, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Ingestion, System Availability, Multi-Cloud, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Storage Technologies, Apache Kafka, Live Streaming, Video Streaming, Terraform, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5848399687 ## About the Role * Approximately 6+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related discipline, with greater emphasis placed on demonstrated impact and technical depth than on a specific number of years. * Deep, hands-on AWS expertise and strong production experience with Terraform. * Solid experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes in production environments. * Proven experience designing distributed systems rather than simply operating existing infrastructure. * Strong understanding of high availability, multi-region architectures, event-driven systems, and reliability engineering, with the ability to explain and defend architectural trade-offs. * Experience with infrastructure-as-code and tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm. * Strong understanding of cloud storage, ideally including large-scale object storage and the economics of storage and data egress. * Experience with event-streaming technologies such as Kafka is highly valuable. * Strong builder mentality, with the ability to take ambiguous technical problems from discovery and scoping through solution design, implementation, production deployment, and ongoing improvement. * Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of infrastructure projects from end to end. * Strong communication skills, including the ability to adapt technical explanations to engineers, product stakeholders, and other audiences. * A strong security mindset, with practical awareness of infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, patching, and secure operational practices. * Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation and taking ownership of production incidents. * Experience establishing platform foundations, engineering processes, or internal infrastructure practices in an early-stage or rapidly scaling environment is a strong advantage. * Experience with media, video, storage infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, transcoding, live streaming, or high-volume egress is a plus. * Familiarity with technologies such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Temporal, or Go is beneficial. * Comfortable working in a remote-first, international environment and collaborating across distributed teams. ## Description This is a senior infrastructure role at the heart of a high-scale, AI-powered sports media platform. You will help design and operate distributed systems handling petabyte-scale media storage and millions of minutes of video every month. The role combines deep AWS expertise, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems, developer experience, and platform reliability. You will work as one of the core members of a lean Platform team, with significant autonomy over architecture, technical decisions, and delivery. A major focus will be building highly available infrastructure capable of supporting critical live sports workflows across multiple regions. You will also shape internal developer platforms, cost-efficient storage strategies, security practices, and multi-cloud capabilities. It is an opportunity to solve complex infrastructure challenges at meaningful scale while working in a fast-moving, international, engineering-led environment. Accountabilities: * Design, build, operate, and continuously improve AWS infrastructure across multiple regions. * Develop and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure managed through Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm, with infrastructure defined and reviewed entirely as code. * Design and operate highly available, distributed architectures capable of supporting critical live-event workloads without conventional maintenance windows. * Own large-scale object storage environments exceeding 15 petabytes, optimizing reliability, performance, scalability, and cost. * Build and operate event-driven infrastructure using technologies such as Kafka, supporting high-volume media ingestion, processing, and distribution. * Drive infrastructure cost optimization, particularly around storage and data egress, treating cloud economics as an architectural consideration. * Contribute to multi-cloud and Bring Your Own Storage architectures that enable customers and partners to retain media in their own cloud environments while maintaining efficient platform access. * Build and evolve an internal developer platform that enables engineers to develop locally, deploy through reliable pipelines, and provision infrastructure through self-service workflows. * Establish clear engineering standards and processes for infrastructure definition, modification, review, deployment, and operational ownership. * Partner with product engineers to reduce platform friction, respond effectively to infrastructure needs, and prevent the Platform function from becoming a delivery bottleneck. * Strengthen infrastructure security through vulnerability analysis, patching, hardening, and continuous security improvements in support of SOC 2 and broader compliance requirements. * Participate in on-call responsibilities for critical infrastructure, sharing operational coverage across the Platform team. * Own incidents through resolution and contribute to detailed postmortems that document technical causes, business impact, costs, and preventative actions. * Reduce alert noise, operational toil, and recurring incidents through proactive reliability engineering and platform improvements. * Lead projects autonomously from discovery and scoping through architectural decisions, implementation, production deployment, and ongoing operation. * Create and defend technical proposals and RFCs, contributing to engineering-wide technical discussions and architectural decisions. * Collaborate closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams while communicating complex technical concepts clearly to stakeholders with different levels of technical expertise. ## Related Videos - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) - [Implementing Feature Environments with AWS and Terraform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/531-implementing-feature-environments-with-aws-and-terraform) ## Related Articles - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Finding Jobs in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/375-finding-jobs-in-germany) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)