About the Position

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (F/M/X)

Are you passionate about building and optimizing delivery pipelines? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment? If so, ablefy is looking for you!

About Us

At ablefy, we empower coaches, consultants, creators, and entrepreneurs to build and sell digital products online. With over 70,000 entrepreneurs already trusting us, we are the #1 platform for coaches and creators in the DACH region. Our mission is to build software that empowers everyone to start, run, and grow a successful digital business borderless.

Our high-performance principles include:

Radical Collaboration
Constructive Confrontation
Adaptive Execution
Collective Ambition
Evolving Expertise
Empathetic Leadership

About the Role

We're seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to own the path from an approved pull request to production, ensuring it is fast, safe, and repeatable many times a day. This role is outcome-driven and requires end-to-end ownership. You will design, build, and optimize internal systems that empower our engineering teams to ship code with high confidence, automating manual friction and driving our transition to a modern, self-service platform.

Key Responsibilities:

Own Release Process & Throughput: Design and manage CI/CD pipelines across CircleCI and GitHub Actions, driving the transition to a queue-based release model, automated rollbacks, and trustworthy DORA reporting.
Manage Infrastructure as Code: Architect and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform (monorepo scale on Terraform Cloud, multi-account setup via AWS Control Tower, ECS in production, EKS for tooling).
Drive Stability & Reliability: Enhance system observability, set up actionable alerting and SLOs, participate in the shared on-call rotation, and act as incident commander when needed.
Ensure Security, Compliance & FinOps: Lead technical requirements for C5 and PCI DSS compliance, automate CVE and dependency management (Renovate, Sentinel), and build per-team cost visibility (FinOps).
Enable Teams to Run What They Build: Build internal developer tooling, reproducible environments, and guardrails so product teams can safely build, run, and own their services end to end, cost included.
Evolve Delivery for Agentic Engineering: Design and continuously develop the pipeline and release flow for a world where AI agents contribute a growing share of the code, moving confidence from manual review gates to automated verification, and iterating on the model as we learn.

Requirements

Release Engineering & CI/CD Mastery: Proven track record of transforming slow release processes into fast, automated delivery pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) guided by DORA metrics.
Hands-on Platform & Infrastructure Craft: Deep experience with AWS and Terraform at scale (multi-account, monorepo structures, Terraform Cloud, ECS/EKS). Ability to write custom tooling and comfortably read/debug application code in at least one language.
Production Operations Ownership: Solid background in managing production infrastructure, observability (metrics, tracing, logs), SLOs, and holding the pager as an incident responder.
Autonomous Delivery: Ability to frame ambiguous problems, design solutions from scratch, and deliver measurable outcomes without needing pre-written specs or micro-management.
Collaborative Mindset: Strong communication skills to drive alignment across DevOps, QA, and product engineering teams without relying on top-down authority, and the written clarity to do it in a partly distributed setup.

Nice to Have

Experience with trunk-based development or merge-queue workflows.
Familiarity with PCI DSS, C5, ISO 27001, or GDPR compliance frameworks.
Experience with Policy-as-Code (Terraform Sentinel) and dependency automation (Renovate).
Exposure to FinOps, Ruby on Rails, or JavaScript environments.
Background in high-transaction SaaS, payments, or creator economy platforms.
Experience integrating AI coding agents or LLM tooling into a real delivery pipeline, and adapting the pipeline to the change in volume and risk.
Experience helping product teams take on ownership and on-call for services they built.
German language skills.

Who Thrives Here

You are proactive by default, low on ego, and focused on outcomes rather than rigid processes. You view yourself as an enabler rather than a gatekeeper, favoring pragmatic, incremental improvements over endless rebuilds. You are comfortable working where the playbook doesn't exist yet, and you enjoy small, senior teams, whether that's from our Berlin office or your own desk elsewhere in Germany. You take full responsibility for what you build and want to see its immediate impact on developer experience.

We Offer

Paid Time Off - 30 vacation days.
A competitive salary.
A personal Training & Development budget of € 1,500 per year.
Responsibility and trust from day 1.
Individual coaching and further training to support you in your development.
A free BVG ticket.
Employee discounts at numerous companies (e.g. at the gym or in online stores).
Pension program with company match up to 30% of employee contributions.
A Culture of equity and Inclusion where you are appreciated for the person you are.

Diversity & Inclusion

At ablefy, we embrace our differences, as they are our greatest strength. We recognize that everyone has a unique perspective based on their experiences, identities, and thought processes, and we strive to create an inclusive environment for all. Discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other aspect that makes you unique is not tolerated at ablefy. We aim to make growth accessible to everyone!

We know that no candidate checks every single box, and that’s okay! If you’re excited about this role and think you can bring something valuable to our team, we encourage you to apply-even if you don’t meet every requirement. We’d love to hear from you!

AI at ablefy

As an AI-first company, we put intelligent technology at the heart of everything we do. AI is part of how we build, learn, and grow together. It helps us work smarter, move faster, and focus on creating real impact. We believe the strongest results come from combining thoughtful technology with curious, driven people - and we’re excited to shape what’s next, together.

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