LEAD CLOUD SOFTWARE ENGINEER CACHING DATABASES - STACKIT (m/f/d)

Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling – IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof!

The impact you will create:

Product Development & Architecture: You actively shape the architecture and future of our Managed Database Services (e.g., PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Redis) throughout the entire lifecycle. You design robust, scalable, and highly available database solutions within a Kubernetes-based environment.

Stability & Reliability: As a Lead, you are responsible for maintaining and optimizing the availability of our database infrastructure. You implement Site Reliability Engineering practices to ensure fault tolerance and data integrity.

Automation (DBaaS): You drive the automation of deployment, backup, and patching processes. Your goal is a "self-service" database model controlled via REST APIs (based on Golang).

Performance & Capacity Planning: You analyze database workloads, optimize queries and configurations, and ensure through proactive planning that our cloud landscape scales according to our customers' needs.

End-to-End Responsibility: We live by the principle of "You build it, you run it." You accompany your services from the first line of code through release management to incident analysis (Post-Mortem analysis), supported by our internal service teams.

Technical Mentoring: You lead the team toward technical excellence, share your knowledge of database internals, and support your colleagues in continuously improving their skills in software development and operations.

Experience and skills you will need:

Passion for Cloud & Data: You are eager to help shape Europe's digital sovereignty and bring deep experience with database technologies and cloud environments.

Database Expert: You have profound knowledge in the operation and design of relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases, as well as topics such as high availability, replication, and backup strategies.

Software Engineering Skills: You are proficient in development with Golang and have experience in building APIs (REST, gRPC) to control infrastructure.

Container-Native: You are highly familiar with containerized system landscapes, ideally with experience in Kubernetes Operators for database orchestration.

Automation & Tooling: You are able to write Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and feel at home in the monitoring ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana).

Analytical Thinking: Troubleshooting of your service, complex performance bottlenecks and processing incidents within the framework of problem management are exciting challenges for you.

Communication: Your excellent communication skills in German and English enable smooth cooperation within our international, agile teams.

Must Haves:

Deep understanding and architecture of Caching databases (Redis / Valkey) including HA setups, backup, restore, replication

Kubernetes, Container and Operators

IaC

Guiding the team to a success

Golang

API Design

Mentoring

SRE Knowledge

Nice to Have:

Observability

Security

Performance Tuning

Our offer:

An attractive remuneration package depending on your seniority

Variety of opportunities with one of the strongest and largest retail companies in the world

A huge array of tools & technologies available on the spot and ready for a steady personal development

Food vouchers, MultiSport card, additional health insurance, travel expenses and a modern office close to Paradise Mall

A good work-life balance with flexible working time & options for mobile work

A pleasant and diverse environment with regular events, team buildings and stimulating activities

Your application will be reviewed in strict confidentiality. Only the approved candidates will be invited to an interview.

Providing your personal data you explicitly agree that it will be processed for the purpose of recruiting and for the purpose of possible signing of a labour contract and will be stored and operated by “Schwarz IT” EOOD and “Lidl Bulgaria EOOD and Co” KD in their capacity of personal data controller and personal data processor in accordance with the Bulgarian Data Protection Legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR). Please have in mind that with this you give permission for your resume to be shared with other parties of the Schwarz Group.

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