Platform Engineer

About The Role A fast-growing, seed-stage enterprise AI platform startup based in Berlin is looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and maintain the backbone of their platform. This is a full-time, on-site role in Berlin where you'll drive deployment, automation, and secure operations across customer cloud environments. You'll work closely with both internal product engineers and customer IT teams to enable scalable, compliant AI deployments for enterprise clients. The company operates in the B2B AI/SaaS space, delivering a security-first, model-agnostic platform that helps large organizations adopt and integrate generative AI across their operations. They are backed by well-known institutional investors and have grown to serve thousands of enterprise customers. Note: Visa sponsorship is available for this role. What You'll Do Manage and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deploymentDeploy and maintain the platform across multiple customer cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, OpenShift)Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep)Monitor and optimize application performance and infrastructure costsEnsure security and compliance across different cloud environmentsCollaborate with Product Engineers to support new feature deploymentsTroubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issuesDocument deployment processes and maintain runbooks for different environments What We're Looking For Must-haves: 3+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on platform or infrastructure engineering responsibilitiesNative-level German or B2 proficiency — required for customer communications with enterprise IT teamsExperience deploying and operating an enterprise platform across major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) and OpenShiftHands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Azure Container Apps, and GitHub ActionsExperience with PostgreSQL and Redis in production environments Nice to have / strongly valued: Ability to implement security best practices and ensure platform reliability in cloud deploymentsStrong collaboration and communication skills with customer IT teams and cross-functional stakeholdersSolid computer science fundamentals Compensation & Benefits Salary: $75,000 – $120,000 USD per year (or local equivalent)Visa sponsorship available Location Berlin, Germany — on-siteThis is not a remote role; regular in-office presence in Berlin is expected