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About the Role
We engineer platforms using deep in-house expertise and a strong commitment to open source, providing flexibility and performance that enterprise SaaS cannot match. We design, steer, and own our stack end-to-end. Your mission is to be the guardian and architect of smartclip’s internal infrastructure, turning observability and automation into a platform capability that empowers every engineer.
Responsibilities
- Own the Observability Stack: Take the lead on Prometheus, Grafana, and Forgejo, evolving them into a world-class monitoring ecosystem.
- Engineer for Reliability: Design actionable alerting and define SLOs to move from reactive firefighting to proactive stability.
- Champion Open Source: Evaluate and implement cutting-edge open-source alternatives to proprietary software.
- Secure the Pipeline: Integrate security engineering directly into our delivery process.
- Master the Metal: Navigate Linux systems and distributed tooling, balancing experimentation with production stability.
Requirements
- Proven track record of implementing metrics, logs, and traces.
- Ability to turn noisy data into actionable insights.
- Comfortable in the terminal and understanding of how distributed systems communicate and fail.
- Use code to automate infrastructure and eliminate toil.
- Embrace the "you build it, you run it" philosophy and take pride in system stability.
- Hands-on experience with GCP or AWS at a production scale (Nice-to-have).
- Active contributions to the open-source community or a portfolio of self-hosted projects (Nice-to-have).
- Experience in conducting blameless post-mortems and driving root-cause analysis (Nice-to-have).
Skills
- Observability Expertise
- Linux & Systems Engineering
- Automation Mindset
- Ownership Culture
- GCP or AWS
- Open-source contributions
- Blameless post-mortems
- Root-cause analysis
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- On-site (for specific events)
Experience Level
- Builder mentality
- Systems thinking
Benefits
- Ownership over tickets
- No unnecessary bureaucracy
- No micromanagement
- Fail fast, learn faster approach
- High standards, low ego
- Direct feedback
- Honest collaboration
- Investment in growth (Hackathons, conferences, community)
- 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
About the Company
- We use AI to accelerate – not to replace thinking.
- We design the system, steer the output, and take responsibility for what we ship.
- Fast where it makes sense. Careful where it matters.
Equal Opportunity
- smartclip is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other diverse characteristics.