Platform Engineer - Tech Effectiveness (m/w/d)

A career driven by you. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We’re not just leading the market; we’re creating it. We’re constantly innovating, evolving and transforming for our customers. We’re driven, ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn’t stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our global community. 

Become part of the AutoScout24 Platform Engineering team and enable engineering teams to deliver software quickly and reliably, living our “you build it, you run it” approach. The ideal candidate for this role is for someone who has background in Software Engineering (Java) and Platform Engineering, who’s able to work with different teams on establishing and promoting engineering best practices. The candidate will be part of the AutoScout Tech Effectiveness team shaping the operational excellence of our tech organization. This involves a lot of cross team collaboration with less emphasis on day to day coding.  

What you’ll do:    

• Collaborate with an engineering manager and different tech teams to identify the right problem to solve in an architectural/consultant capacity.
• Together with your team and internal stakeholders, you will co-create best practices and engineering standards, while shaping the architecture, technology choices and developing infrastructure products.
• Support other engineers that use your team’s products, participate in on-call and troubleshoot production incidents.     
• Take a leading role in projects and initiatives. 

What you need to succeed:   

• Experience with IaaS cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. (Ideally with AWS) 
• Familiarity with core IaaS concepts such as compute, storage, networking, identity management, etc. 
• Problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Background in Software Engineering (specifically with Java) would be a big plus. 
• Ability to code in at least one programming language, ideally Java or Typescript.   
• Experience with SRE and/or DevOps principles. 
• Appreciation for Infrastructure as Code and Pipeline as Code. 
• Knowledge of observability concepts and monitoring technologies such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, OpsGenie. 

If you are curious about our tech stack and how our engineering works, visit our tech blog. 

With over 50 nationalities represented, we’re proud to welcome people of all backgrounds to our growing community, and we’re always finding new ways to help people feel welcomed and included. Here, you’ll have the tools, training and support you need to work in a way that suits you, learn new skills and reach your potential. We provide flexible office attendance and working hours, up to 30 days paid vacation (depending on the location) and state of the art, modern offices to name a few. Our goal is to support you in doing your best work. Learn more about our  benefits on our career page.

For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.