Software Engineer (DevOps/Platform)

Location: Munich, Germany; work arrangement: on-site

Company

hirify.global is a fusion company developing hardware and software infrastructure for commercial stellarator fusion power plants, with teams across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford.

What you will do

• Design and develop a platform supporting stellarator simulation, optimization, and design workflows.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, including infrastructure as code, permissions, and cloud efficiency.
• Support cloud computing with Kubernetes, Ray, Dask, Docker, and PEX.
• Unify the development experience through CI/CD, devcontainers, and monorepos.
• Manage distributed computing and high-performance computing clusters for research and stellarator design.
• Improve observability and raise the standard of cross-organizational DevOps practices and DORA metrics.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in computer science with understanding or hands-on experience in DevOps, CloudOps, or platform engineering.
• Experience developing and managing scalable cloud infrastructure for science, machine learning, or data-processing-heavy use cases.
• Experience with end-to-end and full-stack system design.
• Proficiency in Python and Linux.
• Ability to solve complex problems with simple, maintainable solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on complex technology challenges aimed at developing safe, clean fusion energy.
• Collaborate with fusion experts, engineers, and AI researchers.
• Contribute to software development practices, quality standards, and architecture.
• Join a growing, diverse team focused on ambitious clean-energy research and engineering.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview lasting 30–60 minutes.
• 30-minute technical screening followed by a technical panel with three 60-minute interviews.
• 30-minute CEO call.