Staff Platform Engineer

📋 Description Take ownership of the reliability, capacity and cost efficiency of DeepL's compute infrastructure Shape the platform architecture with peers and commit to decisions that serve the best outcome Design, build and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem Drive the hybrid model to unify workloads across on-prem hardware and cloud (AWS) and support Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards; strengthen observability and security Mentor engineers, review designs, and maintain platform maintainability 🎯 Requirements Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise with full lifecycle experience Experience at scale in public cloud or on-prem; AWS is preferred; bare-metal/data centre experience Networking and Linux depth; ability to trace problems from container to network edge Infrastructure as code with Terraform or equivalent; GitOps with ArgoCD Software engineering in Go or Python; building tooling for engineers Track record of technical ownership across teams and strong incident-management mindset 🎁 Benefits Diverse and internationally distributed team Hybrid work and flexible hours Virtual Shares and ownership mindset Regular in-person team events Monthly full-day hacking sessions 30 days of annual leave