EU remote
(Senior) Platform Engineer (all genders)
About this role
Permanent contract, Full or Part-Time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf / Berlin Who we are We are the tech powerhouse behind Kaufland’s international online marketplaces and a company within the Schwarz Group. Driven by a start-up mentality and working on an equal footing within flat hierarchies, we develop the best marketplace solutions for our customers, sellers and partners. #FromEuropeForEurope Day by day, our Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace.
Through innovative technical developments, they not only create an outstanding shopping experience but also lay the foundation for an optimal selling experience for our sellers. Learn more about our division, areas, and cross-functional teams here ! Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail You act not just as a tool provider, but as a proactive partner to development teams, identifying user needs and priorities and delivering value-driven solutions that improve team efficiency Our team takes responsibility for some critical Platform services, including GitLab, Vault, and Datadog.
With your team you ensure that these systems are always up-to-date and secure Your mission is to make the use of our Platform as simple and seamless as possible for our developers. E.g. our team is going to deliver Backstage as a single point of entry for our developers and allow them to investigate the Platform capabilities You actively contribute to custom features implementation in Go and Typescript based on the users needs By making systems observable and providing clear guidelines and training, you enable Platform and Product teams to make confident, fast decisions and for example reduce Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) Your profile – this is what we expect from you You have great experience in application development (Go, Typescript is a plus) and understand distributed systems design You know, how to build qualitative and easy-to-maintain software and you can support our development teams by digging into their code and understand what they are aiming for You have a solid understanding of infrastructure components (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes) and CI/CD flows.