Summary
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A senior engineer is sought for a greenfield platform and infrastructure initiative. You will make design, coding, and infrastructure decisions, develop core business logic, build authentication and infrastructure-facing services, participate in on-call operations, and proactively improve system resilience and redundancy.
Highlights
Full-time permanent senior role in a remote-first German environment with flexibility to work hybrid or on-site. Offers greenfield ownership over software and infrastructure decisions, product development, system reliability, and a new engineering team.
Description
Your creative field
We are looking for two full-time, permanent Senior Software Developer – Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (all genders) to start as soon as possible.
We live remote-first within Germany, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Convinces Us
Your personality, paired with:
Backend & API Engineering
Production experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Rust) Experience designing and building APIs as a stable interface for infrastructure consumption
Infrastructure
Familiarity with IaaS provisioning stacks: OpenStack (Nova/Ironic/Octavia), KubeVirt/QEMU/libvirt, Ceph, LVM Kubernetes or comparable orchestration in production Virtualization platforms (KVM/OpenStack or similar) Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible)Large-scale infrastructure operations
Mindset & Ways of Working
Solution-agnostic: evaluates build-vs-buy without defaulting to a specific stack Ownership that spans backend and infrastructure, not one or the other Comfortable with on-call and production incident response
Plus: 10+ years combined experience, English fluent, German nice to have
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.
Awesome Prospects
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.
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.
Additionally, We Offer
Work the way that fits your life – Remote or hybrid with flexible hours for a healthy work-life balance and the same technical equipment at home as in the officeExperience real freedom – Workation across the EU and in our summer office in MallorcaStay active and healthy – Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilitiesEnjoy exclusive perks – Attractive discounts on many products and services through our corporate benefits programRecharge your energy – 30 days of vacation plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s EveGive back – An extra day off to get involved in social activities through our Volunteer DayMake an impact – Take ownership and bring your ideas to life with real creative freedomKeep growing – Individual professional and personal development opportunities in an innovative tech environmentFeel comfortable where you work – Modern, conveniently located offices across our European locationsBe part of a diverse team – Work in an international environment shaped by diversityCreate lasting memories – Company events and team activities you won’t forget
How To Reach Us
If you have any questions, you can reach out to Alina by phone +49 89 2441067714.
About Us
Contabo - High-quality Cloud Hosting Made in Germany!
As a leading infrastructure service provider in the field of cloud instances and dedicated servers, we have stood for first-class quality, reliability and favorable prices since our foundation in Munich in 2003.
Meanwhile, more than 275,000 customers in over 190 countries trust our services.
We specialize in providing German quality to users worldwide, focusing on the stability and security of our data centers, the optimization of internal processes, and excellent customer support.
Become a part of our future-oriented company, which plays a significant role in the development of digital cloud hosting, and support us with your ideas and commitment.