Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

About Kittl

• AI-Native Design: An end-to-end platform enabling prompt-based creation of product shoots, social video, labels, and full campaigns without context switching.
• Rapid Growth: Acquired millions of users since 2022, with a clear vision for the future of design.
• Diverse Global Team: 120+ individuals from 30+ countries collaborating on a single product.
• Product-Led Culture: Engineers, product managers, and designers are central to product evolution.
• Strong Financial Backing: Over $45M raised from prominent investors.
• Learn More: www.kittl.com/career

Your Role at Kittl

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will be instrumental in building and evolving the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that empowers our product teams to ship rapidly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security. Your contributions will directly enhance release confidence and operational excellence.

You will partner closely with backend, frontend, data, and AI engineering teams to eliminate operational bottlenecks, refine developer workflows, and standardize service development, deployment, and operation. This is a hands-on role with tangible impact, focusing on improving CI pipeline reliability, accelerating incident detection, and enhancing infrastructure cost visibility.

What You’ll Do

• Enhance CI Reliability & Developer Productivity: Minimize flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops in CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed.
• Strengthen Observability & Incident Readiness: Develop actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for critical user journeys to expedite issue detection, diagnosis, and resolution.
• Operate & Evolve Kubernetes Platform: Manage and enhance 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: Bolster access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows.
• Optimize Infrastructure Costs: Identify key cost drivers (e.g., data transfer, compute, logging) and improve cost visibility and ownership across teams.

What You’ll Need

• Kubernetes & Cloud Expertise: Minimum 5 years of production experience managing Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• CI/CD Expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions) and a proven track record of enhancing pipeline reliability.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with tools like Pulumi or Terraform, and a history of building reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Observability Knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana).
• Security Mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices.
• Collaborative Approach: Ability to work cross-functionally and drive 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 Head of Data (45 min)

Core Tech Stack

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

We Are Looking For Someone Who Is:

• Exceptionally driven to create impact and challenge the status quo.
• Takes extreme ownership and gets things done.
• Goes above and beyond in their role.
• Deeply passionate about their work.

Benefits

• Maximize Your Impact: Support for both leadership and individual contributor growth.
• Hackathons: Quarterly events for experimentation and innovation.
• Kittl Week: Annual global team gathering for collaboration, celebration, and inspiration.
• Flexible Working Hours: Core hours 11 am–5 pm CET, with schedule flexibility.
• Remote Work: Up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year globally, maintaining core hours.
• Learning & Development: Dedicated budget for professional growth.
• Mobility Benefit: Monthly BVG public transport ticket coverage.
• Health & Fitness: Discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year.

Diversity & Inclusion

Kittl embraces diversity and values every team member’s unique background, identity, and experience. We foster respect, honesty, and inclusivity, creating a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on our exciting journey!