Platform Engineer

Zalion

. Own platform foundations end-to-end, from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeMunich • GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €80,000 - €125,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AWS architecture, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline design, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and developer experience. Proven ability to implement observability practices and drive operational improvements in platform engineering.

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AWS ArchitectureTerraform ExpertiseCI/CD Pipeline DesignReliability EngineeringSecurity Practices

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformCI/CDNetworkingIAMSecurity ControlsDeployment StrategiesMonitoringAutomationDisaster Recovery

Soft Skills

Builder MindsetComfort with AmbiguityOwnershipProactive Problem SolvingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

GitHubInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Observability ToolsMonitoring ToolsInternal Tooling

Industry Keywords

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringProduct TeamsStartup ExperienceScale-Up Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own platform foundations end-to-end, from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness
Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across networking, compute, storage, and IAM, optimized for reliability and cost
Design and maintain fast, repeatable, developer-friendly CI/CD pipelines on GitHub
Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation
Improve developer experience through golden paths, templates, self-service environments, deployment paved roads, and internal tooling
Drive availability, scalability, and resilience through deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance tuning
Implement security-by-default practices including least-privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails
Establish and refine observability and reliability practices including SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, and runbooks
Partner with product engineering to reduce operational load and maintain delivery velocity

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production
Deep practical knowledge of AWS, including networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure
Hands-on expertise with Terraform, including modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews
Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub, including pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops
Strong mindset for reliability and operability, including failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes such as SLOs
Security awareness and discipline; ability to build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path
Builder mindset; ability to ship improvements, measure impact, and iterate
Comfort with ambiguity and ownership; ability to proactively identify and resolve platform bottlenecks
4+ years of experience in relevant roles
Startup/scale-up experience is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful equity
High-end equipment
Massive autonomy, zero bureaucracy
Immediate impact
Modern stack, no legacy constraints