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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** api GmbH
- **Location:** Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Databases, Custom Software, Software Debugging, DevOps, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-platform-engineer-d-f-m-vivenu-7888087

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE in high-scale production environments.
 * proven expertise in GCP. Confidence in scaling infrastructure for high-traffic services.
 * past experience of breaking and fixing Terraform state files without anyone noticing.
 * ability to write code (Go and/or Typescript but any modern language will be fine) but mostly read and quickly comprehend different code databases.
 * a collaborative and proactive mindset, with a strong interest in sharing expertise, mentoring peers, and continuously learning
 * the desire to thrive in environments that balance high technical standards with pragmatic decision-making. Nice-to-Have:
 * Kubernetes expertise, knowing how to run, secure, scale, and debug workloads in real-world scenarios
 * deep knowledge in system performance and resilience engineering
 * seen Terraform evolve over time: Experienced not only green fields, but organically grown very actively changing stacks. Bonus points:
 * experience managing rollouts of custom software over global infrastructure, orchestration of multi-tiered, canary or staggered deployments.
 * actual in-deep Go or Typescript coding experience Why join vivenu?

## Description

* designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure and tools to support over 1 billion monthly requests, ensuring performance, availability, and resilience
 * help with configuration, unblocking the occasional stuck deployment and enable teams to manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling across a highly dynamic environment
 * collaborating closely with engineering teams and technical leadership to improve reliability, system performance, and deployment velocity
 * continuously monitoring, testing, and improving our systems to meet fast-growing operational demands, with a focus on automation and observability
 * contributing to infrastructure design decisions and building reusable, modular infrastructure components using Terraform
 * actively sharing knowledge, improving engineering practices, and elevating the team's engineering culture
 * a healthy amount of skepticism for LLM generated code and solutions. We all use those tools daily, but don't ship blindly.


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