Staff Platform Engineer

Job summary

DeepL is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to manage the reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of their compute infrastructure, including AWS and on-prem clusters. The role involves designing and operating Kubernetes clusters, mentoring engineers, and leading incident response.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes expertise
• Experience in public cloud or on-prem infrastructure
• Networking and Linux debugging skills
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or equivalent
• Software engineering skills in Go or Python
• Technical ownership across multiple teams
• Incident-management and reliability-engineering discipline

Responsibilities

• Manage reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of compute infrastructure
• Shape platform architecture
• Design and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters
• Deepen hybrid model for workload management
• Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards
• Mentor engineers in the infrastructure track
• Build consensus across engineering teams
• Lead incident response for hybrid infrastructure

Skills

Relocation