Staff Systems Engineer (f/m/)

Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced Staff Systems Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. As we advance our AI stack and scale our infrastructure, you will play a pivotal role in designing, maintaining, and optimizing our systems. Your expertise will help ensure high availability, security, and performance while enabling seamless deployment for our customers and internal teams. 

As a key technical leader, you will guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive improvements across our infrastructure. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our AI-powered solutions. 

Your Responsibilities: 

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of the Pharia AI stack and the supporting infrastructure. 

• Define best practices and guide teams in writing Helm charts and deploying their artifacts efficiently. 

• Architect, set up, and maintain highly available Kubernetes (K8s) clusters on StackIT or similar cloud platforms. 

• You know how to design, build and maintain Kubernets Operators. 

• Provide strategic guidance and hands-on assistance to customers for deploying and maintaining our products on their infrastructure. 

• Ensure compliance with security and reliability best practices; represent the team in audits and respond to security questionnaires. 

• Act as a technical leader, mentoring engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and technical discussions. 

• Drive automation efforts and improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment efficiency and system resilience. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure with business and product goals. 

Your Profile: 

• Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments. 

• Automation & CI/CD Expertise: Proficiency in tools such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and JFrog. 

• Experience with Kubernetes Operators design and implementation. 

• Strong programming skills in at least one language from our stack: Rust or Go. 

• Deep understanding of security, reliability, and scalability best practices for infrastructure. 

• Proven experience mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and setting best practices. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of contributing to a culture of learning and innovation. 

• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments is a plus. 

What You Can Expect From Us: 

• Become part of an AI revolution! 

• 30 days of paid vacation 

• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub 

• Mental health support through nilo.health 

• Substantially subsidized company pension plan for your future security 

• Subsidized Germany-wide transportation ticket 

• Budget for additional technical equipment 

• Flexible working hours for better work-life balance and hybrid working model 

• Virtual Stock Option Plan