Platform Engineer (all genders)

About Us

We are shaping a digital state - together with the administration. As a partner at eye level, we strengthen the administration on its way to driving its own digitalisation. With our own iterative product development and our commitment to better framework conditions, we create the basis for digital solutions that are scalable and effective.

About The Position

Our Platform Team builds and maintains the internal tools, services, and infrastructure that empower our project teams to build and operate scalable and reliable cloud-native applications. As a Platform Engineer, you'll be a technical contributor on this crucial team, applying your expertise to tackle complex challenges and elevate our platform. You'll play a vital role in the design and development of our platform services, and you'll champion cloud engineering, SRE, and DevSecOps principles to ensure platform reliability and security. You'll help us foster a culture of enablement and operational excellence, and drive the creation of developer-centric tools, enabling high-velocity and high-quality software delivery. You can find more information about our Platform Team in our blog post “Security, Standardization, Support: Our Platform Team.”

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to Platform Strategy & Execution: Collaborate with senior engineers and leadership to execute the technical roadmap. Actively participate in team discussions, identify areas for system improvement, and assist in resolving existing technical debt.
• Build & Maintain Platform Infrastructure: Develop and maintain internal tools and platform services that streamline developer workflows. Manage and update our infrastructure-as-code setups (Terraform, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm), and ensure the daily reliability, monitoring, and scaling of our Kubernetes clusters.
• Support, Document & Enable: Create and maintain clear, up-to-date technical documentation and runbooks. Provide hands-on support to product engineering teams, helping them onboard to platform tools, troubleshoot deployment pipelines, and successfully utilize self-service capabilities.

What You’re Bringing

• Platform Experience: You have solid hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE. You have strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize), CI/CD systems, and observability stacks.
• Programming and System Knowledge: You are confident in using at least one relevant programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java). You also have a good understanding of Linux system administration and networking principles.
• Product Mindset: You view internal platforms from a customer-centric perspective, focusing on understanding developers’ needs and delivering valuable, user-friendly solutions. You are able to communicate technical concepts clearly and comprehensibly to diverse audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Motivation for Public Administration: You are enthusiastic about the idea of digitizing public administration and want to apply your knowledge to the needs of the public sector. You are fluent in English (C1) and ideally have knowledge of German, as we use both languages in our daily work.

Why Join Our Team

• Our team of over 50 software engineers is distinguished by technical excellence, strong teamwork and communication skills, and a truly agile mindset. And, of course, they’re looking forward to welcoming you as a new team member. You can find more information about software engineering at DigitalService in our blog post here.
• Our growing organization offers ideal conditions for over 200 digital experts. For us, “New Work” isn’t just a project—it’s an integral part of our culture. Flexible working hours, spaces for (hybrid) collaboration, efficient use of tools, a strong focus on employees, and our identity as a learning organization set us apart.
• Work in the way that suits you best: You can organize your working hours flexibly, take advantage of our remote work options at any time, and choose your preferred operating system.
• The salary for this position ranges from 60,000 to 68,000 euros gross per year. To determine your individual placement within our salary bands and levels, we consider the scope of responsibility of the role, the complexity of the tasks, and the assessment of your skills from our initial interviews. You can find details about our level and salary system in our blog post “On Levels, Money, and Fairness.”
• Urban Sports Club & more: Every month, you’ll receive a 50-euro voucher on top of your salary that you can use however you like. Fitness, tech, transportation, or food—the choice is yours!

You can find more benefits on our careers page.

How To Apply

We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome all applications - regardless of religion and ideology, nationality and (ethnic and social) origin, gender and gender identity.

We only check incoming applications for their professional qualifications and the key qualifications required for the position in question. We would therefore ask you to refrain from including a photo of yourself in your CV and to delete information about your place of residence, age, gender, marital status or similar.

Recruiting Process & Contact Person

Once we have received your application, we will send an invitation to an initial meeting (screening call) with the responsible person from our Talent Acquisition team or a rejection to you within two weeks. 

A successful screening call is followed by two to three interviews with DigitalService employees. The first interview will focus on your professional qualifications, followed by your values and expectations in terms of teamwork and collaboration. We will provide you with feedback after the appointments and get back to you quickly after the last interview with the final acceptance or rejection. 

We are available at any time during the entire process for questions, feedback and dialogue. 

Do you have any questions for us? Your contact person is Sophie (email: sophie.barth@digitalservice.bund.de).