Principal Engineer, Platform/SRE - Security Focus

Summary

Join Ecosia as a hands-on Platform Engineer with expertise in Security, Site Reliability, and Developer Experience to ensure secure, reliable, performant, and scalable systems and continuously improve Ecosia's developer experience.

Requirements

• Have a high bias for action and have proven to dive deep and overcome business-critical technical challenges
• Have expertise in cloud security, Zero Trust, IAM, and embedding security best practices throughout the software development lifecycles
• Have a documented history of designing and shipping software to production for at least 8 years, as part of SecOps, DevOps, Platform, SRE, or Backend roles
• Be proficient in Python, JavaScript (or TypeScript), or Go
• Be comfortable going up and down the technical stack, including user-facing and backend code
• Possess effective communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences
• Enjoy working collaboratively as part of cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Shape Platform Team's technical vision and strategy
• Improve Ecosia's overall security posture. Set organizational security standards and best practices, including security audits and testing, incident response processes, and disaster recovery plans
• Design, write, test, review, build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure and tooling. Innovate on existing software and systems
• Drive adoption of SLOs across the engineering organization
• Improve developer productivity and time to market
• Explore novel software development and green computing practices and integrate them in our stack
• Participate in our paid out-of-office hours on-call rotation. Own and improve incident management processes
• Advise Product and Engineering stakeholders about the technical feasibility of business ideas. Look ahead to identify technical challenges we need to overcome soon
• Engage with external partners to improve their integrations with our software systems
• Make people around you better. Share and promote engineering and security best practices across teams

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 30 vacation days/year on a five-day week
• Designated Focus Times
• Remote work options
• Relocation support and visa/work permit assistance to new employees and their loved ones coming from abroad and within Germany
• Subsidized public transport cards
• Bike inspection services
• Monthly learning days
• Hack days
• Online and physical libraries
• 2000€ development allowance per year