Staff Platform Engineer - Infra & Cloud Delivery (d/f/m)

Product, Technology & Design
Full Time
Berlin, Dublin
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Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

The Role

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Berlin or Dublin.

Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

This role is ideal for a highly collaborative engineer who thrives in a centralized platform role with a passion to identify & overcome system wide operational challenges by designing and implementing software engineering solutions that enable engineers to deliver change to production in a fast but stable manner. As a Staff Platform Engineer (Production Engineering), you will play a key role in not just building on and maintaining existing platform solutions related to AWS account management, centralised infra resource management, continuous delivery and kubernetes cluster management & operations. But also setting technical direction and contributing to the strategy of the infrastructure platform used by all teams are Personio.

What You’ll Do

  • Run: Own, operate and maintain the EKS clusters across multiple environments and runtime integrations for all workloads.

  • Deploy: Own, operate and maintain the GitOps based continuous delivery systems used by all teams to manage stable releases to production.

  • Provision: Own, operate and maintain central infrastructure as code solutions that enable product teams to safely provision the infra resources they need while enforcing standardisation without causing bottlenecks.

  • Manage: Own, operate and manage the company's AWS account structure, organisation & permission boundaries. Maintaining foundational infrastructure while also actively monitoring cost & utilisation.

  • Recover: Ensure all of the above provide Personio with the capability to automatically recover from disaster scenarios.

  • Operate: Take ownership of operational responsibilities for platform services within your domain, including on-call participation

  • Collaborate: Partner with other staff engineers across developer experience, security & product teams with the aim to simplify our platform architecture, build a golden path, tackle technical debt and ultimately ensure releases to production are stable.

  • Support: Document platform capabilities, run internal training sessions, provide AI-operations specific skills - anything it takes to help product teams operate more smoothly across Personio.

  • Mentor: Help shape a culture of reliability at Personio and multiply your impact by providing technical leadership and mentorship both within your team and beyond it.

What You Need to Succeed

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 7 to 15+ years of experience in a platform engineering, SRE, DevOps background, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.

  • Experience with cloud & infra concepts - E.G. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog

  • Experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using programming languages such as Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Python.

  • Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools).

  • You have a high quality bar, with examples of projects you have led which demonstrate operational best practices.

  • You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate you and your team's engineering design decisions & operational excellence.

  • You strike a balance between a strategic and tactical mindset and are capable of switching between hands-on technical work with engineers on your team, architectural alignment with fellow staff engineers across the organisation and direct partnership with engineering management.

  • You have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale).

  • Experience operating at scale in a high pace, rapid growth environment.

  • You never let a crisis go to waste, but instead learn from your mistakes and help your team to do the same.

  • You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other.

  • Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!

Nice to Have

  • You have experience with or passion to embrace new ways of working through the adoption of AI powered workflows using agents, skills & agentic feedback loops.

  • Familiarity with technologies covering all layers of core infrastructure (compute, networking & storage), including Argo/GitOps, Envoy, Linkerd/Service Mesh, Kafka, SNS/SQS,

  • You have experience building platform-as-a-service style systems for other engineering teams to plug into.

  • Experience collaborating with Developer Experience teams and supporting the SDLC process.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you’ll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

  • Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.

  • Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.

  • Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day.

  • Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.

  • We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.

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