Senior Software Developer – Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (all genders)

About the Position

We are looking for two full-time, permanent Senior Software Developer – Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (all genders) to start as soon as possible. We live remote-first within Germany, but you have the freedom to choose whether you want to work hybrid or completely on-site due to your proximity to one of our locations.

You’ll become an integral part of a new team which is going to be responsible for the creation and maintenance of Contabo's new product line. You’ll be part of a new team in a green field scenario making design, code and infrastructure decisions based on our product strategy and time-to-market. We’re looking for brave, pragmatic risk takers who find a balance between speed and perfectionism, who participate in on-call but also proactively work with the team on improving the redundancy of our systems.

Your main focus is going to creating the business logic side of our new product line, which means authentication, exposing infrastructure primitives such as virtual servers, storage, networking but also accounts, project, feature flags and everything else that comes with it.

As the core team, you’ll be exposing our new product not just to our customers but other internal teams who will be able to build on top of our primitives to create more value on top like managed services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services
• Write clean, maintainable code
• Collaborate with frontend team
• Participate in on-call and production incident response

Requirements

• Production experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Rust)
• Experience designing and building APIs as a stable interface for infrastructure consumption
• Proven experience with IaaS provisioning stacks: OpenStack (Nova/Ironic/Octavia), KubeVirt/QEMU/libvirt, Ceph, LVM
• Kubernetes or comparable orchestration in production
• Virtualization platforms (KVM/OpenStack or similar)
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible)
• Large-scale infrastructure operations
• Solution-agnostic: evaluates build-vs-buy without defaulting to a specific stack
• Ownership that spans backend and infrastructure, not one or the other
• Comfortable with on-call and production incident response

Nice to Have

• 10+ years combined experience
• Fluent in English
• German nice to have

We Offer

• Work the way that fits your life – Remote or hybrid with flexible hours for a healthy work-life balance and the same technical equipment at home as in the office
• Experience real freedom – Workation across the EU and in our summer office in Mallorca
• Stay active and healthy – Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilities
• Enjoy exclusive perks – Attractive discounts on many products and services through our corporate benefits program
• Recharge your energy – 30 days of vacation plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
• Give back – An extra day off to get involved in social activities through our Volunteer Day
• Make an impact – Take ownership and bring your ideas to life with real creative freedom
• Keep growing – Individual professional and personal development opportunities in an innovative tech environment
• Feel comfortable where you work – Modern, conveniently located offices across our European locations
• Be part of a diverse team – Work in an international environment shaped by diversity
• Create lasting memories – Company events and team activities you won’t forget

About the Company

Contabo - High-quality Cloud Hosting Made in Germany!

As a leading infrastructure service provider in the field of cloud instances and dedicated servers, we have stood for first-class quality, reliability and favorable prices since our foundation in Munich in 2003. Meanwhile, more than 300,000 customers in over 190 countries trust our services.

We specialize in providing German quality to users worldwide, focusing on the stability and security of our data centers, the optimization of internal processes, and excellent customer support.

Become a part of our future-oriented company, which plays a significant role in the development of digital cloud hosting, and support us with your ideas and commitment.

How to Reach Us

If you have any questions, you can reach out to Jacqueline by phone +49 89 356471770.