(Senior) Platform Engineer (all genders) - Platform Engineering

Overview

Join us as a (Senior) Platform Engineer (m/f/d) in our Platform Engineering domain and help shape the future of autonomous mobility. You will be part of the domain that provides the platform for all other teams to build and run their software.

The Platform Engineering domain is at the heart of MOIA and consists of three pillars:

• DevEx focuses on the developer experience. We build tools that empower developers and listen to feedback.
• Infra builds and maintains the foundational, scalable, and reliable infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes. We consult on solutions and provide guardrails. We take over incident command when needed.
• AppSec champions the security of our product landscape. We partner with teams to integrate security best practices early and provide tooling to detect vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tools, shared infrastructure, and platform guardrails that pave a “Golden Path” for developers with a focus on security, compliance, and efficiency.
• Design, implement, and manage innovative services, development tools, and core infrastructure components that automate internal tasks.
• Build, manage, and evolve our core infrastructure on AWS and our Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Conduct threat modeling sessions and support teams with security architecture reviews to identify risks early.
• Ensure solutions are reliable, developer‑friendly, secure, and fit for purpose.
• Collaborate effectively within your team, with technology teammates, and stakeholder community.

Qualifications

• Experience with security automation in modern CI/CD environments and familiarity with cloud security best practices (specifically AWS).
• Support a blameless culture and solve problems with other teams, possessing an agile mindset and experience in agile methods.
• Background as a Software Engineer who has built developer‑centric products is a plus.
• Understanding of modern solutions design, enjoyment of solving problems and integrating perspectives.
• Strong programming skills, ideally in Go or Typescript, embrace the “you build it, you run it, you own it” mentality, passionate about AWS.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience architecting, building, and running highly available production systems with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with pair programming and the agile software development process.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (including bonus).
• Hybrid work setup: work from home or one of our offices – you decide how often to meet.
• Flexible working hours and flexible work arrangements.
• Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup.
• Remote work from outside Germany up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries.
• Public transport ticket (“Deutschlandticket”) and discount on MOIA rides.
• Subsidized fitness club membership or bike leasing.
• Continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings, workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes.
• Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops.
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option.
• Relocation support with service provider.
• Dog‑friendly offices.

Diversity & Inclusivity

We are a member of Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity. We provide unconscious bias training and continuously improve our hiring process to ensure a diverse hiring panel.

Our Mission

At MOIA we reimagine the future of mobility – safe, autonomous, and tailored to the needs of cities and people. We build mobility solutions that move cities forward.