Staff Engineer - Manufacturing Systems & Reliability (f/m/d)

About The Company

GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with a wide range of design options, automated offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company is able to create resilient timber housing quickly and cost-effectively. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity, and play a substantial role in improving sustainability. The company delivers its multi-family houses as a complete and turnkey solution. The combination of technology, construction, robotics, and manufacturing expertise means buildings can be created in a fully digitalized end-to-end process. The building system is based on versatile wall and slab elements, making it easier to optimize land use, customize plans, and build fast with both off-site construction and on-site assembly. This system is complemented by the Building Operating System–developed in-house.

About the Role

You will be part of a highly collaborative product team working at the core of our manufacturing facility, transforming digital models into physical elements at scale. Product Teams at GROPYUS own what they build, including the underlying infrastructure, build pipelines, automated testing, release and rollout management, monitoring, and support. You will be trusted to solve problems efficiently and effectively, building on top of a solid architecture and operational foundation, and will be encouraged to seek out under-attended topics and assume responsibility for them both within your product area and across product areas.

As a Staff Engineer, you have an impact across multiple teams within your product area. Staff Engineers effectively collaborate with other Staff Engineers and foster a culture of regular exchange and cooperation. Their ability to communicate effectively and take initiative ensures that they not only contribute to the technical success of projects, but also help drive overall growth and innovation within the company by sharing both best practices and failures, and learning from them. With your focus on and experience in SRE / operating large systems, you will drive and spearhead operational excellence within your product area.

What you'll be doing

As a Staff Engineer (f/m/d) on the Production Platform team, you will be responsible for:

Designing and building the software at the core of our manufacturing and owning the integrations that connect it to physical machines and vendor systems

Leading technical initiatives that ensure software systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally sound, especially in logistics- and manufacturing-heavy domains

Working in a hybrid infrastructure environment (cloud and on-prem), managing complex software deployments at scale

Bringing a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset to monitor, maintain, and improve software uptime, including reliable updates, latency, and efficiency

Acting as a bridge between digital product delivery and physical logistics and manufacturing systems, including assessing vendors for integration fitness, owning buy-vs-build decisions, and negotiating API changes with machine and equipment vendors toward usable, maintainable interfaces

Mentoring engineers across multiple teams and improving system-wide architecture, a maintainable and sound codebase, and operational excellence incl. incident handling

Helping define, monitor, and evolve SLAs/SLOs as well as other important KPIs like e.g. OEE for critical systems

What you bring

You are an experienced software engineer with a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering or operations

You possess practical experience in all key areas of modern software development, including infrastructure, observability, testing, deployment pipelines incl. quality assurance, and scaling

You've operated and supported large-scale software systems in cloud and non-cloud environments (on-premise)

You've worked in companies with strong operational cultures, ideally in logistics or manufacturing — understanding the commercial impact of system downtime

You're comfortable owning integrations with external systems, and can shape and negotiate vendor or machine APIs toward maintainable, scalable interfaces rather than working around whatever you're handed

You have experience mentoring and guiding engineers at various levels

You are proficient with most of the following technologies:

Kotlin / SpringBoot

Kubernetes

Linux

PostgreSQL

TimeFold / Camunda / BPMN / Optimization

Python / Bash is a plus

OPC-UA / PLC / SPS is a plus

You bring Cloud Operations experience

Experience with Azure is a bonus

You're familiar with monitoring and alerting practices for production systems

Experience with defining and working with SLAs/SLOs is a bonus

You are willing to travel within Germany for in-person team events as well as visiting our manufacturing location

What we offer

Be part of something big: You’re here to make a change? Come on board. At GROPYUS, we are on a mission to re-think an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and sustainable, affordable living.

It’s on you: We offer a tremendous amount of ownership and room to make a mark - at all our organization levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.

Focus on results: You choose if you work from home, a park, or the office. Whether you start your day early, after your run, or pick up on work when your kids are in bed. What counts is your contribution and delivery.

Bring your uniqueness to the team : Innovation requires diversity of thought. Diversity in background, experience and thinking is crucial to create the best product for everyone. We actively seek diversity and strive to unlock each other’s full potential. We are very proud that people from all industries and all walks of life are joining our company – in addition to core areas such as construction, engineering, and start-ups, from stock-listed companies from across automotive e-Commerce, digital, sporting goods, and more. You will work in international teams with passionate colleagues. Inspire and be inspired.

Be an owner: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through stock options.

Join us on our mission to design buildings as continuously evolving products to create the most exciting and affordable experience for all. We build for people and conserve the resources of our planet.

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