At Miele, we are establishing a modern observability platform and telemetry ecosystem across applications, infrastructure, and customer-facing digital services. We are looking for a senior platform engineer who can architect and potentially own Miele’s observability platform from the ground up and evolve it into a scalable, company-wide capability.
This is not a pure delivery role. We are seeking someone who combines hands-on engineering excellence, platform thinking, and the ability to enhance and scale an enterprise-grade observability platform.
What will you do:
As a Lead Observability Platform Engineer, you will take a leading role in designing, implementing, and advancing Miele’s observability platform and operating model. You will:
Why this role matters
This role is part of a strategic transformation to establish a unified observability and monitoring capability across Miele. The goal is not simply to implement tools, but to create an end-to-end ecosystem that turns telemetry data into operational intelligence, enabling engineering teams to operate reliable, measurable and observable services resulting in better customer experience.
You will play a key role in building the technical foundation for operational intelligence, reliability engineering, and digital experience monitoring across the organization.
About you
You have a strong platform engineering mindset and enjoy building scalable observability ecosystems that cover telemetry pipelines, monitoring, alerting, search, and digital experience monitoring.
What you bring
What makes you successful
The right person for this role combines strong platform engineering capabilities with deep technical expertise and long-term strategic thinking. You will connect business outcomes with engineering decisions, design scalable systems, and enable teams through automation, self-service capabilities, and clear operational standards.
Most importantly, you care about impact: building an observability capability that improves reliability, efficiency, transparency, and decision-making across the organization.
Since being founded in 1899 Miele has followed its 'Immer Besser' brand promise.
As the world’s leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, we create delightful experiences – not only with regard to the quality of our products, but also in terms of performance, convenience, design and sustainability. For our customers, this means the peace of mind of knowing that choosing Miele is a good decision – and probably the decision of a lifetime.
Our product portfolio includes kitchen appliances such as ovens, steam ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines and dishwashers as well as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and dryers. Dishwashers, washer-extractors and tumble dryers for commercial use as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilisers for use in medical applications augment this line-up.
Miele is a family-run company in the fourth generation with eight production plants in Germany as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China and Romania. The company is represented with its own sales subsidiaries and via importers in almost 100 countries. In the 2020 fiscal year, the Miele Group achieved sales of 4.5 bn, 6.5% more than in 2019. Miele employs around 20,944 people worldwide.
