Platform Tech Lead (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid work with three days of on-site work per week. Work from abroad is available for 10 days per year subject to business and team requirements.

Company

hirify.global operates Immohirify.global, a digital real estate ecosystem connecting homeowners, property seekers, and agents in Germany and Austria.

What you will do

• Shape the Application Platform strategy and translate approved decisions into architecture, service interfaces, technical standards, and delivery plans.
• Lead major cross-team initiatives and migrations, including build-versus-buy analysis and technical decision-making.
• Design, build, and operate platform capabilities and automation across managed services, AWS EKS, and the shared software-delivery path.
• Develop secure APIs and self-service workflows that address recurring developer needs, including machine-usable interfaces for AI agents.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, maintainability, performance, incident learning, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with product teams, explain technical decisions, mentor engineers, and participate in the shared on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production services end to end as a product engineer.
• Production software development experience with Go, TypeScript, or Python, and the ability to work across unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience designing, debugging, and operating services on AWS and Kubernetes, including EKS or a comparable Kubernetes environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and safe rollout and recovery practices; AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi.
• Experience turning developer needs into secure APIs, automation, and self-service workflows, and helping teams adopt shared capabilities.
• SRE experience with observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, and recovery, plus the ability to align stakeholders without formal authority and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience leveraging AI tools for problem-solving and productivity while maintaining effective human oversight and judgement.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse engineering environment with a learning culture, structured feedback, and individual career paths.
• 30 days of vacation per year, dedicated monthly learning time, online courses, and regular learning events.
• Relocation support includes assistance with the visa process and a relocation package.
• Company pension scheme, public transport or Job Bike subsidies, family services, and health coaching.
• Barrier-free office in central Berlin with a gym, cafeteria, rooftop terrace, and other on-site facilities.
• Support for sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Hiring process

• Submit application documents and explain motivation for joining hirify.global.
• Disability support is available throughout the application process on request.