Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you manage AWS infrastructure independently, design CI/CD pipelines, delve into distributed systems, and contribute to product architecture while integrating innovative AI technologies.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You work directly with stakeholders - no walls, no ticket factory.
- Manage AWS infrastructure - architecture, reliability, security, and cost. No infrastructure team above you.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let engineers ship confidently and fast - from commit to production with zero manual steps.
- Sometimes we ship fast to learn, sometimes we slow down to fix the foundation - you'll help decide where to lean.
- Real influence on architecture and product direction, not just coding tickets.
- Help us adopt the latest AI improvements to speed up how we build and ship.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Good communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
- Deep AWS expertise across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability - not just familiarity, but operational instinct built from running things in production.
- Solid distributed systems thinking: ordering guarantees, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, partial failure recovery.
- Enough application-layer literacy to read TypeScript/Node.js (NestJS) code and understand what a service is doing, not just that it's running.
- You know when "good enough" is right - and when to invest in quality.
- You are a strong problem solver - you can break down complex, ambiguous problems and ship pragmatic solutions, not just debug what's already in front of you.
- You contribute ideas and challenge assumptions, not just execute.
- You're genuinely curious about the product itself - you want to understand what we're building and why, not just pick up tickets and ship code.
- You live at the bleeding edge of agentic coding. Claude Code, Cursor, multi-agent setups, MCP servers, whatever ships next, you're using it and pushing it to its limits.
- That said, you know how code and systems actually work. You can debug, reason about architecture, and carry your weight in a codebase without an AI assistant holding your hand.
- Strong work ethic - you take ownership, ship what you commit to, and don't need to be chased.
Experience
- Experience building systems at real scale: high traffic, large user base, high availability.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) - you version everything, you don't click around in consoles.
- Experience running PostgreSQL in production - configuration, connection pooling, migrations, performance, backup and restore.
What we offer
- Remote-first, but we get together regularly - company-wide and as an engineering team.
Topics You Will Work On
Job Locations
About Your Employer
Cello
Cello is a modern startup based in Munich that develops an AI-driven platform to assist software companies in leveraging their users and partners as sales channels. The platform offers comprehensive integrations and optimizations to increase revenue and improve efficiency.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Platform Software Engineer
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
