Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes (annual average 2025). Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 140 million visits per month*. As a “one-stop shop,” mobile.de’s offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.

Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.

About the role 

The mobile.de Cloud and Infrastructure team is providing tooling and support to enable our application developers within a public cloud environment. We take care of IaC for containerised workloads on Kubernetes, observability integrations, resource management and more. We fight toil, believe in everything as code and enjoy enabling our colleagues to work smarter and faster. We are heavily involved in mobile.de’s ongoing public cloud transformation and we watch over our platform 24/7 to detect and tackle incidents in time.

Who you are

• You have a proven track record in internet platform operations
• You are proficient in public cloud (AWS, GCP) and containerisation concepts
• You are looking forward to working with K8s, Docker and Cloud Native Services
• You write your configuration code in Terraform/Terragrunt
• You are not afraid of the occasional deep-dive into Bash, Python, Java, etc.
• Replicated datastores like MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, etc. do not scare you
• Your skill set includes good operational knowledge (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, etc.)
• Consulting and helping others with your expertise makes your day
• You are able to fluently communicate in English

What you'll do

• Contribute to the success and future of Germany’s biggest automotive marketplace with your knowledge and experience
• Challenge the status quo every day and be a vital part in the optimisation and evolution of the platform in the public cloud
• Co-own operations and constantly improve our platform by driving automation, simplicity, reliability and observability
• Share your knowledge and mentor team members as well as application developers in SRE principles
• Use, adapt and (re)design automated workflows as well as maintain and upgrade services of any kind
• Aim to understand the platforms history to shape the future by establishing playbooks and tools for maintenances and migrations
• This role is all about platform engineering in the public cloud and its operations and we want you for this!

Benefits

Working at mobile.de comes with its perks! Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):

• Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.
• Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.
• Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.
• Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.
• Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.
• Enjoy working: Our well‑equipped office supports focused work and teamwork -  plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connect
• Flexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.
• Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.
• Family support:  enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies to support all parents and careers.

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.

Embracing AI: We're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.

Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.
Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).