(Senior) Platform Engineer (f/m/d) - Site Reliability

<p>Our cross-functional Engineering teams develop scalable and secure microservices and APIs for the different domains of our product. As<strong> Platform Engineer</strong> you are not only an individual contributor but support your team with a strong customer-centric mindset and a drive to take on ownership over product capabilities or technical components. Two-week sprints based on Scrum help our teams to self-organize their tasks and continuously improve the way they work to deliver value through our products for our customers. The Platform teams have a few different topics we are working on, you can take a look at the<a href="https://www.leanix.net/en/company/career/jobs?gh_jid=5808831003"> Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure </a>role for more information on the scope of everything we do.</p> <p><strong>WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?</strong></p> <p>As part of one Platform Team, you'll work on optimizing visibility, reliability, and cultivating a 'shift-left' approach:</p> <ul> <li>Elevate observability by enabling the engineering teams with sophisticated Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), and Infrastructure Monitoring. We don't just build monitoring systems; we empower engineers.</li> <li>Enhance and streamline our alerting systems, driving towards a proactive and actionable incident response paradigm.</li> <li>Implement and upgrade efficient logging systems, always maintaining stringent security and privacy standards.</li> <li>Manage and optimize our primary data stores alongside secure and efficient disaster recovery (DR) mechanisms.</li> </ul> <p>Passionate colleagues who are looking forward to share knowledge (<a href="https://engineering.leanix.net/categories/frontend/">see our blog</a>!) and learn from you.</p> <p>You will be part of our larger development organization and contribute to cross-team knowledge building &amp; sharing - with explicit options to share your knowledge across our entire company and beyond, e.g. on conferences</p> <p><strong>WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? Well, there are multiple reasons:</strong></p> <ul> <li>We have invested a lot in a working environment that allows everyone to thrive. We believe in <strong>open access</strong> to leadership, transparent communication, personal development and that our world-class team deserves the <strong>best software stack</strong> money can buy.</li> <li>We're solving hard engineering challenges at a large scale, which requires <strong>creativity </strong>and very strong engineering knowledge.</li> <li>We have a culture of <strong>empowered product teams</strong>, which means you're not just executing a roadmap that someone hands to you, but you actually get problems to solve. And from that, we value and reward outcomes, not just output.</li> <li><strong>We build it, we run it</strong>! We are not just building and delivering features, but we also make sure our customers can rely on them. This means we value resilience, a high degree of automation and staying ahead of our customers whenever something goes wrong.</li> <li>We prioritize <strong>continuous improvement, </strong>collaboration and sharing knowledge. As a product team, we also want to continuously improve our products by validating and measuring how users are using them.</li> <li>We value work-life balance, support working remotely or on-site, and we believe a <strong>well-rested and well-rounded person</strong> with interests outside their job is the best engineer. We offer flexible working hours, so you can adapt your job to your life.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT IS OUR STACK?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and Istio</li> <li>Modern CI/CD and infrastructure tool chain: Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible</li> <li>Monitoring &amp; Alerting, e.g., Instana, Grafana, Fluent Bit, PagerDuty</li> <li>Java &amp; Kotlin using microservice frameworks such as Dropwizard, Quarkus and Spring Boot</li> <li>PostgreSQL, Event Streaming, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka</li> <li>API Technologies such as REST and GraphQL</li> <li><a href="https://engineering.leanix.net/about/#our-tech-stack">Find out more about our stack</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solve problems and deliver customer value</li> <li>Have working knowledge of administrating Kubernetes and container orchestration.</li> <li>Experience in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), Infrastructure Monitoring and other observability tools.</li> <li>Have a deep understanding of public cloud providers, with a strong preference for experience with Azure.</li> <li>Build and maintain distributed services with Kotlin/Java</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud automation tools like Terraform is also highly valued.</li> <li>Working knowledge of PostgreSQL.</li> <li>Experienced in managing secure secrets with e.g. HashiCorp Vault or Azure Key Vault.</li> <li>Take ownership and drive topics</li> <li>Work in a product and customer