Full-Time

Senior Platform Engineer

Platform Engineering

Updated on 9/4/2026

AutoScout24

AutoScout24

501-1,000 employees

Online marketplace facilitating European car transactions

No salary listed

Munich, Germany

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Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Datadog
Claude
Kubernetes
Python
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
TypeScript
AWS
Go
Observability
DevOps

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Requirements
  • Senior-level experience, typically 5+ years, building and operating infrastructure or platform products.
  • Hands-on experience with generative artificial intelligence, including large language model APIs, tool or function calling, retrieval, agents, or agent frameworks used in real workflows.
  • Daily experience using modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
  • Strong Amazon Web Services fundamentals and appreciation for Infrastructure as Code and Pipeline as Code.
  • Ability to evaluate and improve developer experience based on practical experience with developer friction.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for advancing topics with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Solid engineering fundamentals in testing, debugging, code quality, and production readiness.
  • Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps principles and observability concepts, including CloudWatch, Datadog, OpsGenie, or similar tools.
  • Strong coding ability in at least one language, ideally Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into working solutions with sensible scope.
Responsibilities
  • Build and operate the internal AI platform, including secure AI coding environments, AI in continuous integration and continuous delivery, agentic workflows on AWS using Bedrock and Agent Core, and reusable building blocks.
  • Own platform products end to end by designing, building, operating, and improving them with a product mindset.
  • Identify developer friction, determine improvements, and measure adoption after launch.
  • Take ownership of a topic, plan the work, drive it to completion, and keep stakeholders informed.
  • Establish reliable AI tooling practices and help the team adopt them.
  • Shape architecture and technology choices for platform foundations, including Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS, as well as the AI capabilities built on top.
  • Maintain a reliable, secure, observable, and cost-aware platform; participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot production incidents.
  • Document reusable patterns, templates, and blueprints for organization-wide use.

AutoScout24 operates an online car marketplace across 18 European countries with a catalog of over 2.4 million vehicles and about 10 million monthly visitors. Users browse and search listings to buy or sell cars; dealers and private sellers pay listing fees or advertising and value-added services, and the platform offers marketing tools to help reach buyers. It differentiates itself by offering a large, pan-European inventory combined with dealer marketing solutions and a dual channel for private and professional sellers, supported by an ecosystem of related automotive platforms. Its goal is to enable efficient, large-scale vehicle transactions online by giving buyers broad choice and giving sellers a strong channel to connect with customers while generating revenue from listings, advertising, and services.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$275M

Headquarters

Munich, Germany

Founded

1998

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • H1 2026 reporting on August 6, 2026 showed continued revenue growth and strong execution.
  • SmartInserieren launched June 10, 2026, using AI to reduce dealer listing friction.
  • AutoProff launched AP Estimate and AP Managed Smart across Europe in 2026, deepening monetization.

What critics are saying

  • Fitch raised leverage above 7.0x in December 2025, squeezing downturn flexibility.
  • AutoScout24 still trails mobile.de in Germany, leaving core-market pricing power contested.
  • Heavy debt maturities and acquisition integration create refinancing risk if EBITDA stalls in 2027.

What makes AutoScout24 unique

  • AutoScout24 spans 18 countries, pairing consumer traffic with dealer software and lender tools.
  • Trader Canada closed December 11, 2024, adding AutoTrader.ca and AutoHebdo.net.
  • AutoProff’s 2026 B2B marketplace links 40,000 dealers and 170,000 retail-ready vehicles.

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