Cloud Platform Engineer - Cloud & Data Platform (m/f/d)

Company description

tado° is the European market leader for smart products and services to manage your energy consumption and control your climate at home. Our mission is to help households save energy and drive forward the green energy transition in Europe. We are internationally recognized for our excellent user experience, our unmatched compatibility, our award-winning elegant hardware design, and for being truly open with major smart home platforms. Over 200 employees from 45 nations contribute every day to the success of our company, share their ideas, and are part of a dynamic and highly professional value chain. We want to make a difference, challenge our business every day and find new colleagues who are just as passionate about our products as we are!

Role description

To strengthen our Cloud & Data Platform team, we are looking for a curious, experienced, and open-minded colleague who wants to take the next career step with us and is interested in long-term development. 

Your areas of responsibility

• Deeply understand the way backend software is developed across teams and iteratively find the leanest way to improve the process.
• Maintain and further improve the technical foundation and infrastructure of our services.
• Align ‘infrastructure as code’ approaches across teams.
• Contribute in shaping the system boundaries of our cloud services.
• Own and improve our log management and monitoring systems.
• Define and improve engineering guidelines and best practices, and finding ways of spreading this to the different teams.

As of today, we are using the following technologies: Kotlin; TypeScript; Docker; CI/CD tooling; SQL & NoSQL databases; AWS; Github (Copilot) and Google Workspace for collaboration.

• You are conscientious, used to taking initiative over receiving directions, and can manage your time and focus.
• You are very strong in explaining complex topics in English, appropriately tailoring your delivery according to your audience.
• You actively search for opportunities to improve yourself, the working process, your team collaboration, and feedback mechanisms.
• You have strong communication skills and find it easy to proactively connect to other people and exchange arguments.
• Experience in designing high-load zero downtime deployments for JVM-based applications.
• Experience with rapidly iterating on and scaling services running in cloud production environments.
• At least 5 years of experience with most of the topics in our daily business (see above).

• Flexible working hours to accommodate your schedule and remote-friendly work environment within Germany, with the option for temporary work from abroad within the EU.
• 30 annual paid vacation days and a contribution to your company pension scheme.
• Annual Learning & Development budget for your professional and personal development, including training, coaching and subsidized German language courses.
• Learning from highly-skilled colleagues through an open, appreciative feedback culture.
• Discounted access to gyms and courses through “EGYM” for your fitness and work-life balance.
• Health care activities by company doctors such as vaccination, skin screenings, and mental health service via HelloBetter.
• Free Tuesday lunch in the office, company-wide events, regular “Beer O’clock” afterwork events, and various sports events throughout the year.

tado° is an equal opportunity employer and we are striving for a diverse workforce. Thus, we recruit talented individuals based solely on their competencies and skills, without any regard to their race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, belief, or disability.