We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer who will join our Cloud Platform Unit at SCAYLE (onsite Hamburg/Berlin) and have a transformative influence on the way we build, operate and run our platform.

The Cloud Platform team is the strategic owner and custodian of our global, high-performance e-commerce platform (SaaS, headless, multi-tenant, multi-region). We provide the robust foundation that powers SCAYLE, managing the entire critical infrastructure stack—including Kubernetes, networking (VPC, ingress, etc.), GitLab, and the core deployment pipelines. You will also take full ownership of essential platform components running on Kubernetes, such as scaling strategies, secrets management, and comprehensive monitoring, alongside our logging infrastructure built around Opensearch and fluentd. The platform is engineered for scale, regularly seeing traffic peaks that demand an infrastructure of several hundred nodes. Your mission will be to ensure its flawless, uninterrupted 24/7 availability while proactively driving its evolution, pushing the boundaries of its capabilities and operational excellence.

This is a role of significant organizational impact. We treat our internal development teams as key customers, and your contributions will directly influence their velocity and success. By championing essential automation and continuous advancement of our platform, you will play a crucial part in ensuring SCAYLE operates at peak efficiency. We seek autonomous, motivated, and self-driven engineers who are ready to embrace this challenge, take full ownership, and have a transformative influence on our infrastructure.

Tech stack: Terraform, Terragrunt, Go, AWS, Opensearch, Datadog, Gitlab CI, Docker, Kubernetes

What you will do:

• Lead and contribute to internal architectural decisions

• Conduct regular 1:1s
• Architect and evolve: Maintain and continuously improve our AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on engineering a robust, secure, and cost-efficient environment.
• Drive automation: Automate and advance our CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitLab CI, Terraform) to ensure a smooth, reliable, and secure path to production for all services.
• Ownership: Take full ownership of critical platform components running on Kubernetes, including scaling strategies, secrets management, and core networking (VPC, ingress).
• Ensure availability: Design, implement and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (monitoring, alerting, and logging using Datadog, Opensearch, and fluentd) to guarantee the platform's flawless, uninterrupted 24/7 availability.
• Partner and enable: Act as an autonomous partner and expert consultant to internal development teams, treating them as key customers and collaboratively driving operational excellence across the organization.

Who you are:

• At least 6+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer
• At least 3+ years lead experience
• You have strong experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• You are confident working with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• You bring a solid background in CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI) Terraform is more than a science fiction term for you
• You can Go (basic to intermediate level)
• You are a strong collaborator, working closely with agile development teams and internal stakeholders

Additional information:

**Working model:

Due to the upcoming tasks and responsibilities for this position, it is required to work onside from our office in Hamburg or Berlin. Therefore we’ve implemented a hybrid working model that allows us to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays and to work onsite from Tuesday to Thursday.

Benefits

• Hybrid working

• Fresh fruit every day

• Sports courses

• Free access to code.talks

• Exclusive employee discounts

• Free drinks

• Language courses

• Laracast account for free

• Company parties

• Help in the relocation process

• Mobility subsidy

• State-of-the-art technology

• Central Location

• Flexible Working Hours

• Company pension

• Professional training

• Dog-friendly office

• Remote

• AY Academy

• Feedback Culture

• Job Bikes

YOU ARE THE CORE OF SCAYLE.

We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the SCAYLE culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents. :-)

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