Senior DevOps Engineer

Mission Founded in 2024 by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, Integral set out to redefine how accounting, taxation and payroll works for SMEs in Europe, starting with Germany. The company is backed by General Catalyst, Cherry Ventures, Puzzle Ventures and entrepreneurs across Europe. As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help us build trustworthy product experiences that solve real customer problems on payroll, tax and accounting. Own outcomes, not just output, balancing speed and craftsmanship to deliver value that compounds using state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. What You'll Do Design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability and securityOwn our CI/CD pipelines end-to-end — from design to rollout and continuous improvementDrive infrastructure-as-code practices across the engineering teamCollaborate closely with product and AI engineers to enable fast, safe and frequent deploymentsMonitor system performance, lead incident response and run post-mortems to keep raising the barInstrument infrastructure with observability tooling — logs, metrics, traces — and act on what you seeEnsure security and compliance standards are met across all environmentsBalance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investmentsDrive simplicity: reduce complexity for developers and keep systems easy to reason aboutHigh ownership: you'll have a real say in how we build and scale our infrastructureYour decisions directly impact the reliability and performance of a platform used by thousands of SMEs across EuropeTight feedback loops with engineers, founders and stakeholdersPragmatic pace: ship, learn, iterate Core Responsibilities Experience & Mindset 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure roles, ideally at a startup or high-growth companyProven track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end and driving measurable impactComfortable with ambiguity: you take initiative, manage your own time, and leave systems and teams better than you found themYou turn complexity into simplicity, make good decisions reversible, and build plans others can followComfortable leveraging AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot or Claude — and able to audit and validate AI-generated codeExperience in fast-scaling environments is a strong plusGerman language skills are a strong plus Technical Skills Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP preferred)Containerisation and orchestration: Docker, KubernetesCI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD or similarInfrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Pulumi or equivalentObservability: logs, metrics, traces; familiarity with SLOs and incident responseSecurity basics: authN/authZ, secrets management, threat modelling, secure coding practicesFamiliarity with Python is a strong plus, our engineers work heavily with Python and Claude The process Intro Call with our Talent Team Deep dive Interview with our CTO & co-founder On-site Coding Interview at our Berlin office with the engineering team Founder Conversation with our CEO & co-founder Our offer Above-market salaryDirect line to the Founders: no filter, no queue, no committeeTotal autonomy on what you build; we measure hours savedThe best tools, no questions asked: Claude Max, Cursor, OpenAI, whatever ships next weekInternal tools and resources purpose-built to support agentic AI development at scale, read about how we work at engineering.integral.de28 vacation days per year, plus half-days on December 24 and 31Urban Sports Club membership, coupons (Sachbezüge) to over 200 partners or Deutschlandticket, your choiceBest equipment for you to succeedCompany pension scheme (bAV)Modern office in the heart of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, right next to MauerparkWeekly team lunches on us, office BBQs, and a dinner budget for late nights after 8pmA team of 50+ (and growing!) ambitious, diverse people, 20%+ ex-founders learning and building together