Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Ecosia's Platform team as a remote-first Platform Engineer and contribute to improving and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You will focus on enhancing developer experience, implementing monitoring solutions, and creating tools to optimize workflows. Your work will directly impact millions of users and our planet. Responsibilities include creating changes that improve product development and engineering efficiency, maintaining infrastructure, and pioneering climate-conscious computing. You will also support engineers in understanding operational practices and foster technical growth within the team. Ecosia offers flexible working hours, 30 vacation days, remote work options, and a green benefits program. Professional growth is supported through learning times, hack days, and continuous feedback.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in total for software development and in DevOps/Platform/SRE
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language
• Experience with a cloud computing platform and tools for container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Improve & scale Ecosia’s cloud infrastructure and make development frictionless and operationally safe
• Work on new technologies (e.g., CI/CD tooling, managed cloud services, configuration as code), implement monitoring solutions, and create tooling that optimises the developer experience
• Support engineers across the organisation in their understanding of operational practices and support your direct colleagues’ technical growth
• Creating changes that will have a direct impact on product development, engineering efficiency, and overall developer happiness
• Improve, scale, and maintain all infrastructure that powers Ecosia, used by millions of users globally
• Have a strong influence in pioneering the next generation of climate-conscious computing
• Tackling questions such as How can we further enable our engineers' experience through empowerment, automation, and technology?
• How can we ensure that our infrastructure, production systems, and running applications are secure, scalable, and reliable?
• How can we enhance our telemetry and improve observability in all of our running systems?
• How can we improve our incident detection and mitigation mechanisms and follow up on our blameless post-mortems?
• How can we strengthen our collaborative and inclusive culture, in alignment with our core values?

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with our tech stack is considered beneficial, but not necessary

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 30 vacation days per year (based on a five-day workweek)
• Designated Focus Times
• Remote work options
• Our green benefits program - including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services - supports your sustainable living choices in Berlin
• We support your professional growth through learning times, hack days, online and physical libraries, and continuous feedback