We are a dynamic, international team developing a UWB-based Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) that powers solutions for industrial applications. To achieve the precision and scalability required for modern IoT solutions, we build a full stack of software components, including firmware, backend, and frontend applications.
Join our team to scale existing solutions and create innovative KINEXON products in close collaboration with colleagues from our software and hardware departments.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONSFor this opportunity, we are looking for a mid-level or senior engineer with a strong DevOps focus and solid backend development experience:
- Several years of experience in DevOps, cloud operations, and backend development
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS
- Experience maintaining staging and production environments, including deployments, monitoring, and operational reliability
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Good understanding of observability, alerting, troubleshooting, caching, messaging, and scalable backend services
- Very good English skills and the ability to collaborate in an international engineering environment
As a DevOps and backend engineer in our agile RTLS team, you will:
- Maintain and improve our staging and production AWS/Kubernetes setup
- Support reliable deployments, configuration changes, monitoring, alerting, and day-to-day operations
- Help scale our AWS and Kubernetes setup as product and customer needs grow
- Investigate incidents, improve operational stability, and make the setup easier to run and maintain
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services where they connect closely with infrastructure, scalability, and product needs
Our stack combines cloud operations with backend service development. You should be comfortable working with technologies and concepts such as:
- DevOps and operations: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Reliability: deployments, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and cost-aware scaling
- Backend development: Go, APIs, Protobuf, Redis or comparable caching solutions, MQTT-compatible messaging, and distributed service design
- Technology evolution: introduce new technologies and modernize outdated tools where they improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, or cost efficiency
- Optional frontend: Vue.js, Node.js, or similar technologies
At KINEXON, you will meet people with a similar mindset who are passionate about innovative technologies and love to master new challenges in a team, as well as create great products.
Become part of our team and enjoy the following benefits:
- #Freetime 30 days (DE) / 20 days (US) paid vacation to refuel your energy (for full-time employees)
- #WeCare – take your time off for the family (parental leave etc.)
- #WorkingHours – Early bird or night owl - you can choose your flexible work hours.
- #FlexibleLocation – we work with a hybrid and remote model.
- #OneTeam - We enjoy spending time together at regular team and company events.
- #OnTop - further benefits selected by you annually out of a range of benefits that we offer (mobility, sports, vacation budget, training budget and more)
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ABOUT US
KINEXON is a leader in Physical AI for Manufacturing & Sports, turning real-time location and motion data into actionable intelligence and automation. Our AI and IoT-driven platform supports a wide range of applications, from automated logistics and safety solutions in factories to live player tracking and performance analytics in sports. In sports, 80% of NBA teams rely on KINEXON technology, alongside FIFA and top European football teams and leagues. In manufacturing and logistics, we partner with blue chip companies including BMW, Siemens, Airbus, Continental, and MTU to drive measurable efficiency gains. Founded as a TU Munich spin-off, we are a team of ~250 people headquartered in Munich with a US office in Chicago - and we're hiring ambitious talent ready to shape the future of physical AI.
Skills Required
- Several years of experience in DevOps, cloud operations, and backend development
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS
- Experience maintaining staging and production environments including deployments, monitoring, and operational reliability
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Good understanding of observability, alerting, troubleshooting, caching, messaging, and scalable backend services
- Proficiency in Go for backend development
- Experience with Protobuf, Redis or comparable caching solutions, and MQTT-compatible messaging
- Very good English skills and ability to collaborate in an international engineering environment
- Familiarity with frontend technologies such as Vue.js or Node.js (optional)
What We Do
KINEXON stands for connected and automated operations in manufacturing, logistics, sports and media organizations. Our full IoT-stack, which includes state-of-the-art cloud solutions, translates physical worlds into digital twins and provides intuitive tools to identify, optimize and automate processes. Through our leading solutions we enable our customers to achieve next-level performance, efficiency and sustainability. 360-degree connectivity also seamlessly integrates into existing IT infrastructures and allows to realize individual applications. As a full-stack provider, KINEXON covers the entire range of sensors, cloud-software, consulting, and service. In addition, KINEXON possesses profound vertical expertise in manufacturing, logistics, professional sports, and media. Among the clients are top international sports clubs from the NBA, NHL, NFL, Bundesliga, DEL, BBL, and HBL, globally active companies including BMW, Continental, Zalando, and Red Bull, as well as high-reach media enterprises such as Red Bull Mediahouse and Sky. KINEXON has received several awards for its innovative solutions – for example, KINEXON won the awards for most innovative tech company in Bavaria, several IoT Awards in the US, and and "best young tech company" at the "Factory of the Year" awards, organized by A.T. Kearney and the industry journal “Die Produktion.” KINEXON was founded by Dr. Alexander Hüttenbrink and Dr. Oliver Trinchera, former scientists of the Technical University of Munich. The headquarters in Munich, as well as the US offices in Chicago currently employ around 300 people.
