Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

Hey there, we are SafeNow!

A startup on the mission to bring safety into the pockets of every person on the planet, for free. To do this, we are developing an app that gives you instant access to locally relevant helpers, whether that is your friends, family, or professional helpers.

We are a small team with a big heart, based in Munich, consisting of 28 people with 7 different nationalities. We are looking for a passionate new team member, who loves to tackle new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. We are a diverse bunch of honest and open-minded people, who share a common vision to make the world a safer place for ourselves and the people and places we love.

Tasks

• Operate and evolve our AWS-based infrastructure to be secure, scalable, and highly available
• Manage our Kubernetes clusters and ensure smooth operation of all services
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Monitor our systems using Grafana and Prometheus and respond to incidents quickly and effectively
• Advocate for DevOps best practices across the engineering team and help shape our operational culture
• Collaborate closely with developers and QA to continuously improve the platform

Requirements

• DevOps Engineer full-time with a Linux background — you know your tools from curl to jq, from awk to sed, from iptables to netstat and you know how to exit vi
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (own cluster running on AWS), Terraform (we're using in to keep stuff up to date and to automatically setup new infrastructures for e.g. pentests), Prometheus and Grafana
• Strong experience with AWS (IMA, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront etc.) and fluent with the AWS CLI
• Bonus: You already have experience with optimizing PostgreSQL (we’re using AWS Aurora)
• Willingness to learn more about running backends like Hasura, Kafka or EMQX. Great if you already have experience
• Based in or around Munich (remote possible)
• Fluent in English, German is a bonus

Benefits

• Choose macOS (MacBook Pro) or Linux (e.g. TUXEDO laptop) and pick your own tool chain — we don’t force you to vi, emacs, VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA or whatever
• Design the future of personal safety
• Become part of a great, supportive and ambitious team with a mix of young and experienced professionals
• Receive trust, autonomy and ownership from the start, including a personal onboarding and close alignment with our founder and the product team
• Take part in physical and digital team events
• Earn competitive stock options (ESOP) in a fast-growing startup with good pay
• Set flexible, self-determined working hours with remote work and unlimited vacation days
• Enjoy our campus with food trucks, outdoor pool area, a gym, a homey office including our beloved tree called Benjamina and of course a kicker and table tennis table

If you feel like you are the right person to help us make the world a safer place, we would love to hear from you. In the meantime, check out our website to learn more about us or have a look at our team video:

If you want to get an idea of how our engineering team works, here's a podcast you might be interested in (sorry, only available in German):