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# (Senior) Platform Engineer (all genders)

- **Company:** Kaufland
- **Location:** Düsseldorf, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Ansible, Software Engineering, Vault (Revision Control System), TypeScript, Datadog, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5875593321

## About the Role

* You have great experience in application development (Go, Typescript is a plus) and understand distributed systems design
 * You know, how to build qualitative and easy-to-maintain software and you can support our development teams by digging into their code and understand what they are aiming for
 * You have a solid understanding of infrastructure components (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes) and CI/CD flows. You are able to maintain and upgrade critical system components
 * You favor simple, high-impact solutions, avoid overengineering, and deliver tailored increments that meet real developer needs
 * You embrace AI-driven development and utilize modern AI tools to increase your efficiency so you can focus on problem-solving and high-quality output within a fast-paced environment
 * You are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment

## Description

* You act not just as a tool provider, but as a proactive partner to development teams, identifying user needs and priorities and delivering value-driven solutions that improve team efficiency
 * Our team takes responsibility for some critical Platform services, including GitLab, Vault, and Datadog. With your team you ensure that these systems are always up-to-date and secure
 * Your mission is to make the use of our Platform as simple and seamless as possible for our developers. E.g. our team is going to deliver Backstage as a single point of entry for our developers and allow them to investigate the Platform capabilities
 * You actively contribute to custom features implementation in Go and Typescript based on the users needs
 * By making systems observable and providing clear guidelines and training, you enable Platform and Product teams to make confident, fast decisions and for example reduce Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)