Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

Department: Engineering

Location: Berlin

Employment Type: FullTime

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow

• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch

• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries

• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture

• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence.

In this role, you will partner closely with engineers across backend, frontend, data, and AI teams to remove operational bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on role with clear impact, directly contributing to outcomes such as more reliable CI pipelines, faster incident detection, and improved infrastructure cost visibility.

What you'll do

• Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed

• Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster

• Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure

• Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams

• Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows

• Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

What you’ll need

• Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems

• CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns

• Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana

• Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices

• Collaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Technical interview I (60 min)

• Technical interview II (60 min)

• Interview with CTO (30 min) & cross-functional team interview (30 min)

• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (45 min)

Our core tech stack

AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Docker, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript/Node.js

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo

• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done

• Who goes above and beyond in their role

• Who is deeply passionate about what they do

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact

• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.

• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun

• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style

• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours

• Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth

• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket

• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount

• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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🌈 At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!