Senior DevOps Engineer

Mission Founded in 2024 by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, Integral set out to redefine how accounting, taxation and payroll works for SMEs in Europe, starting with Germany. The company is backed by General Catalyst, Cherry Ventures, Puzzle Ventures and entrepreneurs across Europe. As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help us build trustworthy product experiences that solve real customer problems on payroll, tax and accounting. Own outcomes, not just output, balancing speed and craftsmanship to deliver value that compounds using state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. What you'll do Design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability and security Own our CI/CD pipelines end-to-end — from design to rollout and continuous improvement Drive infrastructure-as-code practices across the engineering team Collaborate closely with product and AI engineers to enable fast, safe and frequent deployments Monitor system performance, lead incident response and run post-mortems to keep raising the bar Instrument infrastructure with observability tooling — logs, metrics, traces — and act on what you see Ensure security and compliance standards are met across all environments Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investments Drive simplicity: reduce complexity for developers and keep systems easy to reason about High ownership: you'll have a real say in how we build and scale our infrastructure Your decisions directly impact the reliability and performance of a platform used by thousands of SMEs across Europe Tight feedback loops with engineers, founders and stakeholders Pragmatic pace: ship, learn, iterate Core responsibilities Experience & Mindset 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure roles, ideally at a startup or high-growth company Proven track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end and driving measurable impact Comfortable with ambiguity: you take initiative, manage your own time, and leave systems and teams better than you found them You turn complexity into simplicity, make good decisions reversible, and build plans others can follow Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot or Claude — and able to audit and validate AI-generated code Experience in fast-scaling environments is a strong plus German language skills are a strong plus Technical Skills Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP preferred) Containerisation and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD or similar Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent Observability: logs, metrics, traces; familiarity with SLOs and incident response Security basics: authN/authZ, secrets management, threat modelling, secure coding practices Familiarity with Python is a strong plus, our engineers work heavily with Python and Claude The process 1. Intro Call with our Talent Team 2. Deep dive Interview with our CTO & co-founder 3. On-site Coding Interview at our Berlin office with the engineering team 4. Founder Conversation with our CEO & co-founder Our offer Above-market salary Direct line to the Founders: no filter, no queue, no committee Total autonomy on what you build; we measure hours saved The best tools, no questions asked: Claude Max, Cursor, OpenAI, whatever ships next week Internal tools and resources purpose-built to support agentic AI development at scale, read about how we work at engineering.integral.de 28 vacation days per year, plus half-days on December 24 and 31 Urban Sports Club membership, coupons (Sachbezüge) to over 200 partners or Deutschlandticket, your choice Best equipment for you to succeed Company pension scheme (bAV) Modern office in the heart of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, right next to Mauerpark Weekly team lunches on us, office BBQs, and a dinner budget for late nights after 8pm A team of 50+ (and growing!) ambitious, diverse people, 20%+ ex-founders learning and building together