Job Description

Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling – IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof!

The impact you will create:

• You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and reliable code for our software products based on Kubernetes.
• You will participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through design to deployment and maintenance.
• You will conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and promote knowledge sharing within the team.
• You will actively participate in design and architecture discussions to advance the technical vision and roadmap of our products.

Must-Have Requirements:

• Programming Fundamentals: Proficiency in Go, C++, or Rust. You should be comfortable writing automation scripts
• Kubernetes Basics: Experience deploying applications to K8s and a solid grasp of basic troubleshooting (logs, events, and pod lifecycles).
• Observability & Monitoring: A clear understanding of uptime and experience setting up basic monitoring and alerting to keep services healthy.
• Reliability Mindset: You take pride in system stability and are ready to participate in an on-call rotation, treating every incident as a learning opportunity.
• Automation Focus: A drive to turn repetitive, manual tasks into repeatable, automated workflows.

Nice-to-Have (Professional Level Skills):

• Extending K8s: Experience (or a strong desire to learn) writing Kubernetes Operators and Controllers in Go.
• Advanced Reliability: Knowledge of implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to create data-driven alerting and error budgets.
• Scale: Experience managing or troubleshooting large-scale distributed clusters beyond a single environment.
• Engineering Rigor: Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining high standards for infrastructure-as-code.
• Architectural Thinking: The ability to look at a manual K8s workflow and design a Controller to handle it autonomously.