Multiple years of experience with Amazon Web Services and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
Solid experience in monitoring, container orchestration, and microservice setups.
Working knowledge of Python, at least one additional general-purpose programming language, preferably Java, Kotlin, or JavaScript/Node.js, and build automation tools.
Solid understanding of scalable system design principles, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.
A degree in a relevant field of study, such as computer science, engineering, or sciences, or work experience in a role that typically requires a university degree.
Full professional proficiency in English and the ability to communicate concisely in an international English-speaking environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Responsibilities
Shape how the company runs microservices in a performant, secure, and cost-efficient way.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and understand scalability requirements for the platform, including user growth and increasing data volume.
Design and roll out monitoring best practices in Datadog, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and service-level agreements.
Research and develop service and storage improvements using serverless technologies, and optimize services and continuous integration and continuous delivery for scalability, cost, and performance.
Develop and maintain internal tooling for monitoring, the Developer Portal, and load testing.
Mentor and enable software development teams by educating them and providing reusable, unified building blocks to improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and techniques related to scalability and performance engineering.
Design and implement best practices for infrastructure autoscaling.
Run chaos engineering experiments to improve service resilience.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with Terraform.
Experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Job Description
Our team's mission is to ensure that teams can scale up their services while being performant, reliable and cost optimised through self-service tooling and transferring best-practices for observability, load-testing, services discoverability, chaos engineering and FinOps.
Scalable Capital was built in the cloud from day one. Our services currently run on various AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Lambda and are distributed across multiple accounts. We embrace a DevOps culture where the development teams manage their CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for their services themself. Our Scalability Engineering Team focuses on providing everything necessary to ensure Reliability and Scalability of our services and storages while being cost efficient. This includes solutions for Monitoring, AutoScaling, Load Testing, Chaos Engineering and FinOps.
Shape the way how Scalable runs microservices in the most performant, secure and cost efficient way.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and understand scalability requirements for our platform, both in terms of user growth and increasing data volume.
Design and rollout Monitoring best practices in Datadog including SLI, SLO and SLAs
Research and develop service and storage improvements by using serverless technologies and optimise our services and CICD to optimise scalability, cost and performance
Develop and maintain internal tooling around Monitoring, Developer Portal and Load Testing
Mentor and enable our software development teams to further foster our DevOps culture by educating them and providing reusable and unified building blocks which can be used to improve scalability, reliability and performance of existing and new services
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and techniques related to scalability and performance engineering.
Design and implement best practices around auto scaling of our infrastructure
Run chaos engineering experiments to improve resilience of our services
Qualifications
Multiple years of experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform)
Solid experience in Monitoring, Container Orchestration and Microservice setups is required
Good working knowledge with Python, at least one additional general purpose programming language (Preferably Java/Kotlin or JavaScript/Node.js) and build automations tools
Solid understanding of scalable system design principles, distributed systems, and cloud technologies
Experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins would be beneficial
A passion for automating, improving processes and working together with other developer teams
A degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences) or work experience in a role that typically requires a university degree
Full professional proficiency in English and the ability to communicate concisely in an international English-speaking environment
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Additional Information
Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
International relocation support is provided if required
Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
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