Staff Platform Engineer

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the reliability, capacity and cost efficiency of DeepL's compute infrastructure
• Shape the platform architecture with peers and commit to decisions that serve the best outcome
• Design, build and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem
• Drive the hybrid model to unify workloads across on-prem hardware and cloud (AWS) and support
• Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards; strengthen observability and security
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and maintain platform maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise with full lifecycle experience
• Experience at scale in public cloud or on-prem; AWS is preferred; bare-metal/data centre experience
• Networking and Linux depth; ability to trace problems from container to network edge
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or equivalent; GitOps with ArgoCD
• Software engineering in Go or Python; building tooling for engineers
• Track record of technical ownership across teams and strong incident-management mindset

🎁 Benefits

• Diverse and internationally distributed team
• Hybrid work and flexible hours
• Virtual Shares and ownership mindset
• Regular in-person team events
• Monthly full-day hacking sessions
• 30 days of annual leave