Senior Platform Engineer | Climate Tech startup

📋 Job Overview

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, and help us scale it securely. You'll work across AWS, IaC, CI/CD, and security/compliance, making pragmatic decisions that balance speed, reliability, and risk. This isn't a ticket-taking role: we want someone who designs systems, takes ownership, and enables the engineering team to move fast without breaking things.

Please note: at this stage we're not able to offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.

🎯 The Role

You'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our AWS infrastructure, owning infrastructure as code with Terraform, building and improving CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment processes, driving observability, supporting ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audit readiness and ongoing compliance, leading incident response and contributing to reliability engineering, and enabling other engineering teams.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain our AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, multi-account setups)
• Own infrastructure as code with Terraform: keeping it clean, scalable, and auditable
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment processes
• Drive observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting across the stack
• Support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audit readiness and ongoing compliance
• Lead incident response and contribute to reliability engineering (SRE fundamentals)
• Enable other engineering teams: remove blockers, don't create them

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS experience: VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, networking, multi-account setups
• Solid Terraform / IaC ownership: you've built and maintained it in production
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment practices
• Security fundamentals: IAM, encryption, secrets management, KMS
• Exposure to ISO 27001 and/or SOC 2 (audit support at minimum)
• Observability experience: logging, monitoring, alerting at scale
• Calm under pressure, pragmatic about trade-offs, clear communicator across teams

⭐ Desirable Experience

• ISO 27001 / SOC 2 ownership and certification experience
• DevSecOps tooling (SAST/DAST, SBOMs, scanning)
• Threat modeling, or continuous compliance automation.

🎁 Benefits

• Unique & Powerful Mission: join a fast-growing and ambitious tech company that is shaping the future of carbon management and fighting climate change
• Compensation & Rewards: a steep learning curve and ownership from day one. We offer an attractive compensation package, including virtual stock options
• Health & Wellbeing: Urban Sports Club subscription to stay healthy & fit.1:1 coaching sessions with Nilohealth for your mental well-being.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: A hybrid setup with 3 days/week in our Munich office. Real collaboration time with the team, plus the flexibility to structure the rest of your week where you focus best.
• Team Culture: Our transparency, Humility, and Accountability values create a unique and supportive working environment. Be part of a multinational, motivated team that thinks work should be fun!
• Connection & Networking: Summer Offsite, Winter Party, and regular team events We give you plenty of opportunities to connect with people, strengthen cross-functional relationships, and boost collaboration
• Trust & Transparency: monthly All-Hands Meetings, weekly update newsletters, and Founders Q&As. We keep you informed on current company numbers and goals

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Please note: at this stage we're not able to offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.

Please not that this role is required to be in the office 2/3 times per week