Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

A little about us

AI-native design: Kittl is becoming the AI-native, operating system for creative businesses. We give small brands the creative firepower to look credible and get from idea to launch-ready, with no agency and no design team

Rapid growth: 11 million users since 2022

Diverse team: 120+ people from 30+ countries, with offices in Berlin and Düsseldorf and teammates working remotely

Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product Managers and Designers sit at the core of what we build

Strong backing: Raised over $50M, led by IVP with Left Lane Capital and Speedinvest. IVP has also backed Figma, Slack, and Dropbox

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence.

In this role, you will partner closely with engineers across backend, frontend, data, and AI teams to remove operational bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on role with clear impact, directly contributing to outcomes such as more reliable CI pipelines, faster incident detection, and improved infrastructure cost visibility.

What you'll do

Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed

Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster

Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure

Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams

Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows

Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams

What you’ll need

Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems

CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability

Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns

Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana

Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices

Collaborative approach : Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes

Interview process

Recruiter interview (30 min)

Technical interview I (60 min)

Technical interview II (60 min)

Interview with CTO (30 min) & cross-functional team interview (30 min)

Bar raiser interview with Head of Data (45 min)

Our core tech stack

AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Docker, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript/Node.js

We are looking for someone

Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo

Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done

Who goes above and beyond in their role

Who is deeply passionate about what they do

Benefits

Maximise your impact: Real ownership of what you ship. Whether you lead a team or lead through craft, we back you to do the work that matters most

Shape AI-native creative work: Kittl sits where AI, design, and commerce meet. You'll build the tools that decide what professional looks like for our next million users

AI enablement: We use AI across the company, not just in the product

Passionate team: Quarterly hackathons for experimenting with new concepts, pushing boundaries, and delivering the next big thing

Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun

Work-life balance: 30 vacation days a year, plus public holidays

Flexible hours: Core hours are 11am to 5pm CET. How you build the rest of your day is up to you

Hybrid working style: 3 days a week in our office in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, the rest of the week from home

Remote work: On top of that, work from anywhere in the world for up to 50 days (10 weeks) a year, as long as you're reachable during core hours

VESOP: Enrollment in our Virtual Employee Stock Option Plan. When Kittl grows in value, you share in it

Lunch: Daily chef-prepared meals in the office.

Mobility: Your monthly BVG ticket, fully covered

Health & fitness: Urban Sports Club M membership

Learning & development: Annual L&D budget for your professional growth

German classes: Online group courses at every level

🌈 At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!