Top Software Engineer Jobs in Cologne

The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain features for Restream web services, design backend APIs, ensure infrastructure resilience, and contribute to a collaborative team environment.

Develop and optimize Soroban smart contracts and integrate anchor services on the Stellar network for cross-border payment solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, test and debug smart contracts, document development processes, provide technical support, and stay current with blockchain and payments technology trends to ensure secure and efficient implementations.

Implement and optimize EVM-compatible features, reduce gas usage, develop and test smart contracts, collaborate on Ethereum infrastructure, and provide technical support.

Build and maintain high-security mobile wallet apps using React Native, Swift, or Kotlin. Implement biometric authentication and secure key storage, collaborate with cross-functional teams, debug performance issues, and propose UX and security improvements.

Lead the architecture, development, and delivery of scalable backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and services supporting global 3D and computer vision applications. Drive technical direction, system performance, resiliency, observability, and maintainability. Mentor senior engineers, conduct architecture reviews, lead cross-functional initiatives, influence hiring and team growth, and shape engineering culture and long-term technical vision.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop high-quality web and mobile applications, ensuring code quality while collaborating with product teams and mentoring junior engineers.

Build and maintain user-facing features and interfaces for Restream web services. Design and implement UI and business logic, collaborate with product designers and engineers, perform code reviews, improve reliability and scalability, and evaluate emerging technologies.

Join the Kubernetes product team to design and implement Kubernetes operators and addons, write high-quality Golang and Python code, debug issues, collaborate with a distributed team, mentor colleagues, and contribute to open-source integration and lifecycle management. Travel 2–4 weeks yearly for team events.

Design, build, and operate production-grade generative AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, end-to-end RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation and integration, scalable AWS-based AI infrastructure, CI/CD for models, observability, data validation, and evaluation frameworks to ensure quality, attribution, and resilience.

Build and maintain services and tooling to automate and secure network lifecycle across data centers. Implement CI/CD, staged rollouts, drift detection, observability pipelines, and APIs that integrate network source-of-truth with the cloud platform. Collaborate with network engineers and SREs to turn operational pain into production-grade automation and tooling.

Work on Percona's open-source MongoDB operational tools (primarily ClusterSync and also Backup). Build and harden a Go-based replication engine handling initial cloning and continuous change streams, ensure correctness and fault tolerance at scale, support sharded clusters, optimize performance and resource usage, and maintain CLI/HTTP APIs, metrics, logging, tests, and packaging. Collaborate openly via GitHub pull requests and JIRA.

Develop core backend components for a blockchain network, focusing on networking, reliability, scalability, and high-quality software practices.

Develop and enhance front-end, server-side, and database applications, focusing on blockchain products while ensuring high performance and security.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll design and evolve LiveKit's core systems, implement resilient architectures, and enhance reliability and developer velocity, working on critical features in production environments.

Design and evolve core control, data, and observability systems; implement resilient region-spanning architectures; build libraries, protocols, and tooling; diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, and testing; and shape platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.

The role involves designing and evolving core systems at LiveKit, implementing resilient architectures, and building tools to enhance system reliability and developer speed. Strong distributed systems experience and programming skills are essential.

Design, implement, and operate low-latency, highly available distributed control, data, and observability systems. Build region-spanning architectures, libraries, protocols, and tooling; diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real traffic; and shape platform capabilities around identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and manage a MongoDB solution on various platforms, ensuring reliability and security while contributing to a small team focused on impactful projects.

Build and operate Python services and APIs for GPU virtual machines and bare-metal infrastructure. Develop provisioning, placement, maintenance, recovery, capacity, and scheduling workflows; integrate GPU servers with OpenStack and Kubernetes; automate validation and production readiness; and improve testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational tooling. Investigate complex production issues across compute, networking, storage, virtualization, and hardware while owning projects through rollout and ongoing operation.

Build and improve Restream’s web interfaces and user-facing features for the AI Clips team. Design UI and business logic, collaborate with product designers, participate in code reviews, improve system reliability, and evaluate emerging technologies. The role requires strong JavaScript and TypeScript expertise, advanced React knowledge, CSS preprocessor experience, and familiarity with backend development, cloud infrastructure, containers, and continuous deployment.

Manage various AI/ML projects from concept to development, coordinating teams, managing risks, and ensuring project goals are met. Responsible for documentation and financial planning.

Staff SRE responsible for production reliability of Grafana Cloud database products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope). Partner with product squads, own high-SLA tenant reliability, design SLOs, build automation, lead incident response and post-incident reviews, reduce SLO burn and alert noise, and influence scalable, operable feature designs.

Build and scale the internal developer platform: create tools, services and automation (CI/CD, canaries, feature flags, access workflows) using IaC (Pulumi/Python) and Kubernetes to enable safe, fast shipping. Drive platform initiatives, mentor teams, lead AI tool adoption for engineering, participate in on-call and design/code reviews, and ship major improvements across the organization.

Lead optimization of concurrent systems, scale backend microservices, and collaborate with developers and engineers on deployment for retail solutions.

Develop cloud-native production systems that process large data volumes. Engage in backend development with Rust and frontend with Angular. Collaborate on product development.