Senior Software Developer – Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (all genders)
Contabo
<br><strong>Your creative field</strong><p><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">We are looking for<strong> two full-time, permanent Senior Software Developer</strong> – Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (all genders) to <strong>start as soon as possible</strong>. We live remote-first within <strong>Germany</strong>, but you have the freedom to choose whether you want to work hybrid or completely on-site due to your proximity to one of our locations.<br><br><br>You’ll become an integral part of a new team which is going to be responsible for the creation and maintenance of Contabo's new product line. You’ll be part of a new team in a green field scenario making design, code and infrastructure decisions based on our product strategy and time-to-market.<br>We’re looking for brave, pragmatic risk takers who find a balance between speed and perfectionism, who participate in on-call but also proactively work with the team on improving the redundancy of our systems.<br><br>Your main focus is going to creating the business logic side of our new product line, which means authentication, exposing infrastructure primatives such as virtual servers, storage, networking but also accounts, project, feature flags and everything else that comes with it. <br><br>As the core team, you’ll be exposing our new product not just to our customers but other internal team who will be able to build on-top of our primatives to create more value on top like managed services. </span></p><br><strong>What convinces us</strong><p><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Your personality, paired with: <br><br>Backend & API Engineering<br></span><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Production experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Rust) </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Experience designing and building APIs as a stable interface for infrastructure consumption </li></ul><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Infrastructure<br></span><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Familiarity with IaaS provisioning stacks: OpenStack (Nova/Ironic/Octavia), KubeVirt/QEMU/libvirt, Ceph, LVM </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Kubernetes or comparable orchestration in production </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Virtualization platforms (KVM/OpenStack or similar) </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible)</li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Large-scale infrastructure operations </li></ul><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Mindset & Ways of Working<br></span><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Solution-agnostic: evaluates build-vs-buy without defaulting to a specific stack </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Ownership that spans backend and infrastructure, not one or the other </li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Comfortable with on-call and production incident response </li></ul><span style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Plus: 10+ years combined experience, English fluent, German nice to have<br> <br> <br>We know that you may not currently meet all the requirements. But if you come to us with the right amount of commitment and enthusiasm, we can take off together and make a big difference.</span></p><br><strong>Awesome Prospects</strong><p><p style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:107%;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">At Contabo, we are constantly evolving. Our growth creates space for new ideas, ownership, and real impact for people who want to make a difference.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:107%;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">What defines us is trust, direct communication, and an open feedback culture. We believe the best solutions are built together and that everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow, and leave their own footprint.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:107%;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Additionally, we offer:</span></p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Work the way that fits your life</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Remote or hybrid with flexible hours for a healthy work-life balance and the same technical equipment at home as in the office</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Experience real freedom</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Workation across the EU and in our summer office in Mallorca</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Stay active and healthy</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilities</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Enjoy exclusive perks</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Attractive discounts on many products and services through our corporate benefits program</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Recharge your energy</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – 30 days of vacation plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Give back</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – An extra day off to get involved in social activities through our Volunteer Day</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Make an impact</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Take ownership and bring your ideas to life with real creative freedom</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Keep growing – </span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Individual professional and personal development opportunities in an innovative tech environment</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Feel comfortable where you work</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Modern, conveniently located offices across our European locations</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Be part of a diverse team – </span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Work in an international environment shaped by diversity</span></li><li style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong><span style="line-height:107%;">Create lasting memories</span></strong><span style="line-height:107%;"> – Company events and team activities you won’t forget</span></li></ul></p><br><strong>How to reach us</strong><p><span style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;">If</span><span style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> you have any questions, you can reach out to Alina by phone </span><span style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;color:rgb(0,0,0);">+49 89 2441067714</span><span style="border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;color:rgb(0,0,0);">.</span></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>