Jobs / Enpal
Staff Platform Engineer (f/m/d)
Enpal · Berlin, BE, Deutschland
Berlin, BE, DeutschlandExp: 8+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
29 vacation days plus an additional day off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve; discounted Wellhub membership; corporate benefits; company pension scheme; 25% discount on Bosch Smart Home products
Location
Berlin, BE, Deutschland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Staff Platform Engineer provides technical leadership for the internal platform powering applications and services, setting architecture and engineering standards to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. The role leads infrastructure automation and cross-team initiatives, establishes practices for Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code, and mentors engineers while improving the developer experience. The platform supports an energy business connecting solar systems, battery storage, wall boxes, smart meters, and heat pumps.
Benefits
29 vacation daysAdditional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year's EveDiscounted Wellhub membershipCorporate benefitsCompany pension scheme25% discount on Bosch Smart Home products
Qualifications
- At least 8 years of experience in platform, cloud, DevOps, or software engineering, including operating production systems at scale
- Hands-on expertise with cloud environments and containerized applications, including Azure and Kubernetes
- Experience designing and operating production-grade clusters
- Deep experience with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, Helm, and observability tooling
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams from design through rollout
- Experience mentoring engineers through design and code reviews and documentation
- Strong system design skills and ability to assess reliability, scalability, security, and cost trade-offs
- Clear spoken and written English communication skills
- German language knowledge is a plus
- Experience scaling platform teams, monitoring and incident response, open-source infrastructure contributions, or regulated environments is a plus
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve internal platform architecture, including build-versus-buy and long-term design decisions
- Lead infrastructure automation and self-service tooling for deployment, provisioning, and operations
- Set standards for Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure as code
- Improve platform usability, reliability, documentation, and developer experience metrics
- Mentor engineers and review designs and code
- Lead high-impact cross-team initiatives from scoping and design through rollout
- Identify and address risks, inefficiencies, and technical debt
- Partner with development, operations, security, and leadership teams on platform needs and priorities
Skills
AzureHelmKubernetesMakeTerraform
Languages
EnglishGerman
Industry
EnergySolar energy
Relocation
No