DevOps-Focused Software Engineer -
Hybrid/Darmstadt (80-100 %)

The cornerstone of our solutions is to make geospatial data accessible, useable, and useful.

 

Our vision is to provide the data infrastructure that enables Europe to achieve a sustainable, climate neutral industry and society.

 

Towards this goal, we already support more than 1.000 organisations in implementing the INSPIRE standards, a set of specifications for the delivery of spatial, environmental and statistical data, and are now building the Green Deal Data Space.

 

In this role, you will take ownership of the DevOps processes of our platform. You will work with state-of-the-art technologies and highly innovative solutions.

 

We support exceptional applicants from outside the EU.

Join us and be a cornerstone of the team!

Job Details

Responsibilities

 

  • Maintain and improve DevOps processes and tools around our k8s deployments, including observability
  • Contribute to optimisation and development of components of our platform
  • Define and implement security technical and organisational measures

 

Your Profile

Must-Have

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Solid Linux system administration skills
  • Production Kubernetes experience – has deployed, operated and debugged k8s workloads in production
  • Fluency with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
  • Comfortable applying current security practices in backend and infrastructure work (secure coding, secrets management, dependency and container scanning)
  • Strong written communication and documentation habit;
  • Able to work effectively in a remote-first, distributed team
  • Comfortable owning technical conversations with customers and partners, including scoping decisions, API integration question

Strongly Preferred

  • Experience with JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, Groovy, or Scala)
  • Experience running or operating self-managed Kubernetes clusters
  • Experience with threat modeling, security reviews, or working under formal security/compliance requirements (e.g. BSI Grundschutz)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, or similar)
  • Background in geoinformatics or related geospatial domains

Nice-to-Have

  • Observability and monitoring experience (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalents)
  • Experience with terraform/OpenTofu

 

Our Offer

 

The most important is of course the work environment: At wetransform, you will work with an innovative and smart team of experts from six countries. Our customers come from 15 different countries, and we solve interesting challenges for them. Professional growth of everybody through peer-to-peer feedback is a core tenant of our company culture.

 

  • Professional growth in an innovative and smart team
  • Health care benefits, such as gym memberships
  • Flexible working hours with the possibility of working from home
  • Central, state-of-the art office in downtown Darmstadt
  • Foreseen base salary range is 72k€ to 84k€, based on experience, fit and location (as location impacts ancillary wage costs)
  • Equity Share via Employee Stock Option Programme (0.3 to 0.5%)
  • Annual bonuses

Join Our Team!

Please apply by sending an email with your cover letter and CV to jobs@wetransform.to