Job Description

Explore a new world of possibilities

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

You'll join a small, high-trust Platform Engineering team (six engineers and a team lead) that runs HomeToGo's cloud platform across AWS (primary) and GCP. As a Senior Cloud Engineer you own load-bearing platform initiatives end to end and are accountable for production outcomes.

How you’ll add value

In your first 6–12 months you will:

• Own a major platform migration end to end — from design through production cutover to retiring the legacy system it replaces.
• Deliver the DevOps work behind revenue- and compliance-critical launches on hard deadlines.
• Advance our GitOps, ingress, and infrastructure-as-code modernization, cutting configuration drift and manual toil.
• Strengthen observability and incident response, closing alerting gaps and running blameless postmortems.
• Set technical direction under ambiguity across a broad, legacy-heavy stack, and raise the team's capability through proactive knowledge-sharing and mentoring.
• Partner with newly acquired teams as their dedicated DevOps contact, and share the weekly working-hours on-duty support rotation.

You’ll be successful in this role if you

We assume senior-level technical fluency as a given in AWS (primary) and GCP; Kubernetes/EKS; Terraform & Terragrunt with Atlantis; ArgoCD (GitOps) and Envoy Gateway; Prometheus/Grafana and OpenSearch; Okta and Vault; a range of datastores; and an AI-assisted/agentic development workflow.

• Drive loosely-defined, ambiguous initiatives to a shipped outcome without waiting for a spec or to be told the next step.
• Own production outcomes end to end — step up when something breaks, lead the fix, and turn it into a blameless postmortem the team learns from.
• Share knowledge by default — document decisions, teach teammates, and deliberately avoid becoming a single point of knowledge.
• Coordinate across teams and stakeholders — align competing priorities, negotiate trade-offs, and rebuild unclear ownership boundaries.
• Decide under uncertainty — make and defend calls on what to standardize, keep, or retire when there's no obviously "right" answer, and change course when the evidence does.
• Ask openly when you don't know something — treating "let me find out / who knows this?" as a strength, not a gap to hide.
• Adopt new ways of working fast — especially AI-assisted / agentic development — and bring others along with you.

What we offer

• AI-first culture: Leverage a world-class AI ecosystem with Google Enterprise+, Slack AI, and SOTA model access via Copilot, Claude or LiteLLM. By using our custom agents for automation and knowledge management, you’ll become a first-class adopter of the AI workflows defining industry best practices.
• Flexible hybrid work: Work remotely up to 50% of the year, including up to 63 days of "work from anywhere" within the EU and UK.*
• Competitive compensation: Market-aligned salary plus stock options for eligible roles.
• Generous time off: 27 vacation days to start, increasing with tenure to up to 32 days.
• Dog-friendly offices: Bring your four-legged friend along – our offices welcome well-behaved dogs.
• Relocation & visa support: Full visa sponsorship and relocation support for international hires joining our Berlin office.*
• Growth & development: German classes, masterclasses, and cross-team mentoring.
• Commuter & mobility perks: Monthly subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket and tax-advantaged bike leasing via salary conversion.
• Wellbeing & fitness: Mental health support resources and subsidized sports memberships.
• Travel & lifestyle perks: Exclusive discounts via HomeToGo_Friends, Travel Industry Card deals, and 20% off Union Berlin fan gear.
• Climate responsibility: We practice responsible stewardship daily and embed ESG at the heart of our operations, while collaborating with Plan A to stay accountable for our carbon footprint and environmental impact.

*Certain conditions apply.

Protect Yourself From Recruitment Scams

At HomeToGo, we care deeply about the integrity of our hiring process and the safety of our candidates. Please note:

• All legitimate job opportunities are listed on our official Careers Page.
• Any communication from us will come from an @hometogo.com email address.

If you come across a suspicious job posting, receive an unsolicited offer, or are unsure about the legitimacy of a communication claiming to be from HomeToGo, please reach out to us for verification via recruiting@hometogo.com.