Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d) Block Storage Provisioning (Go)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid working model

Company

hirify.global is a European provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services, hosting, and digitalization solutions for SMBs and enterprises, serving around six million customers across 18 markets.

What you will do

• Maintain and improve existing block storage provisioning.
• Design and develop next-generation provisioning for highly available and redundant storage, including failover.
• Add monitoring and alerting to detect provisioning failures early.
• Build provisioning workflows that are robust against failures and safe to retry.
• Analyze and resolve complex issues across the stack, from the Linux kernel to the provisioning layer.
• Migrate legacy components incrementally without breaking existing users.

Requirements

• Expert Go skills and several years of professional software development experience.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including the kernel, block storage, software RAID (MD), LVM, and network block devices (NBD, RNBD).
• Experience with VMs, including libvirt, QEMU, and cloud-init; building VM images; and developing Kubernetes Operators.
• Working knowledge of C sufficient to read and debug low-level code.
• Fluency with Git, Docker, shell, and CI/CD, including GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring provisioning and troubleshooting issues.
• Experience building highly available, redundant systems, including replication, failover, idempotency, retries, consistency, and failure handling.
• Affinity for cloud environments and infrastructure provisioning automation.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants, such as Claude, in development work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured and independent way of working in a team.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexible trust-based working hours.
• Open structures, flat hierarchies, friendly working culture, and strong team spirit.
• Modern offices with good transport connections; some locations offer subsidized canteens and free drinks.
• Employee discounts, events, workshops, and health and sports courses.
• Training and professional development opportunities.