STACKIT Platform Services - Observability Suite - Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Your Profile

• You have deep enthusiasm for Software Engineering, Cloud-Native Observability and SRE
• You actively own the entire software development lifecycle, go and k8s being your bread and butter - k8s operators preferably also a part of your arsenal
• You are experienced with - or eager to master - the Grafana ecosystem
• You understand the observability needs in today's cloud environment services and know how to instrument them effectively.
• You enjoy discovering new technologies (e.g. OpenTelemetry) and are excited about sharing your knowledge with the community and the team.
• You don't just look at dashboards; you understand the underlying data structures and how to optimize them for high-cardinality environments.

A modern, well-equipped workplace awaits you at Plaza Catalunya — right in the heart of Barcelona.
 

As part of our commitment to a positive and supportive work environment, our company offers a range of attractive additional benefits. These include restaurant vouchers, transportation benefits, health insurance, and fitness vouchers. Through our discount platform, you can also enjoy monthly discounts and benefits in a wide variety of categories, from services to clothing to accommodation.

Working closely with international departments, we develop customer-oriented solutions in flexible, small teams.

Our employees are very important to us. You will become part of an appreciative and open corporate culture with flat hierarchies.

We offer you diverse and exciting career opportunities in a dynamic work environment that stands for development and progress. 

We believe in giving our employees the flexibility they need to do their best work. Our most popular model is the hybrid model, which gives employees the option to work remotely up to 12 days per month. In-office time is focused on collaboration.

Your Tasks

• You design and develop components of the Observability Suite as sovereign cloud services, focusing on the integration of the Grafana LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
• You extend our system architecture by identifying and implementing relevant open-source projects (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) to capture logs, metrics, and traces.
• You develop Kubernetes operators to automate the life cycle of cloud services
• You develop and maintain REST APIs that allow our customers to programmatically access and control their monitoring and alerting lifecycles.
• You take ownership in an agile "You Build It - You Run It" environment, acting as a bridge between development and SRE.
• You conduct complex root cause analyses using logs, tracing and metrics - eat your own dogfood - identifying bottlenecks & issues and implementing sustainable fixes.