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# Staff Engineer (IT Automation & AI-native Transformation)

- **Company:** SoSafe GmbH
- **Location:** Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, Github, Information Technology Operations, Productivity Software, Workflow Management Systems, Zapier, Information Technology, Software Coding
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-engineer-it-automation-ai-native-transformation-sosafe-8696867

## 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, stakeholder management 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

* Test-bed: Architect, build and iterate a toolchain fusing traditional automation and productivity tools (n8n, google workspace, 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.


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