Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of smartclip’s internal utility and platform tooling.
- Focus energy on the intersection of observability, automation, and developer infrastructure.
- Evolve existing systems, research cutting-edge open-source alternatives, and implement them.
- Replace expensive enterprise SaaS with deep in-house expertise.
- Understand systems end-to-end, maintain total flexibility, and contribute back to the open-source ecosystem.
- Operate and advance observability stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and Forgejo.
- Replace 'buy' decisions with robust 'build & maintain' strategies.
- Design observability as a platform capability.
- Define SLOs and create actionable alerting to prevent incidents.
- Embed security engineering into the delivery process.
- Find vulnerabilities before pen tests do.
- Navigate Linux systems and distributed tooling.
- Balance bold exploration with production stability.
Requirements
- Apply an Observability Mindset: Implement a clear strategy for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Transform 'noisy alerts' into 'actionable insights'.
- Embrace Ownership: Live the 'you build it, you run it' philosophy.
- Stop the ticket ping-pong and end the excuses.
Nice to Have
- Design and evolve production-grade setups on GCP or AWS.
- Show contributions to open-source projects.
- Turn passion for root-cause analysis into blameless post-mortems.
Benefits
- 30 days of vacation
- Dec 24 & 31 off
- Smart Fridays (4 days week possible)
- Mobility (Germany ticket & JobRad)
- Sports & health offerings
- Mental health support
- Corporate benefits
- RTL+ access
- Hackathons, conferences, community – investment in growth and staying at the cutting edge
Additional Information
- What matters more than your resume: a portfolio, a side project, a demo repo – anything that shows you don’t just talk about code, you ship it.
- Production-ready. Thought through. Done.
