Senior Software Engineer (DevOps/Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid role based in Ljubljana, Slovenia or Graz, Austria; office attendance required 3 days per week.

Salary: €57,700–€72,100 gross annually, with potential discretionary bonuses and equity.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates a large constellation of imaging satellites and delivers satellite data through a cloud-based platform for commercial, environmental, and humanitarian users.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms across the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem and other sovereign deployments, including upgrades, capacity planning, networking, autoscaling, and deployment under data residency constraints.
• Build reproducible infrastructure-as-code and GitOps-style release workflows using Terraform, Helm, and GitLab CI.
• Own platform reliability by defining SLIs and SLOs, creating alerts and Grafana dashboards, load testing, maintaining runbooks, and reporting availability against SLAs.
• Respond to incidents, lead blameless post-mortems, participate in the on-call rotation, and implement lasting reliability improvements.
• Operate PostgreSQL/PostGIS, object storage, and search indices, including backup, restore, and disaster recovery.
• Contribute to security and compliance, collaborate with customer technical teams, review infrastructure changes, mentor teammates, and use AI tooling responsibly.

Requirements

• 6+ years of DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production operation of distributed, low-latency, high-volume services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Geosciences, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes or Nomad, including troubleshooting, upgrades, ingress, networking, resource management, and autoscaling.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD, including Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, Git, and Docker.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging, including meaningful alert definition.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals, plus scripting or programming with Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience with GCP, AWS, OpenStack, or comparable infrastructure, including S3 or similar object storage.
• Operational experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL; incident management and on-call participation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, ability to write design proposals, collaborate across time zones, learn quickly, work through ambiguity, and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Professional working proficiency in English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with sovereign, regulated, or public-sector environments, data residency requirements, ISO 27001, or comparable security frameworks.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience operating Java services, including JVM tuning and memory or garbage-collection troubleshooting, and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Familiarity with Earth Observation data and standards such as COGs, STAC, OGC web services, or openEO.

Culture & Benefits

• People-centric culture with a focus on belonging, inclusion, and humanitarian impact.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee Wellness Program, home office reimbursement, and monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Equity and paid volunteering time off, subject to employment type, location, applicable law, and company policy.
• AI tools may be used for interview preparation, but are prohibited during live interviews or assessments unless explicitly permitted; interview recording with AI transcription requires candidate consent and allows opting out.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and may close early once a suitable applicant pool is received.
• Applicants may request accommodations during the hiring process; selected interviews may use AI-assisted recording and transcription with prior notification and an opt-out option.