Celonis is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Release Infrastructure) to take ownership of core systems that impact hundreds of engineers, aiming to improve time to production, reduce developer friction, and ensure reliability at scale for their software delivery processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend, DevOps, and/or platform engineering roles.
- Experience as a full stack engineer, working end to end
- Strong programming skills in at least one modern language (e.g. Python, Go, Java).
- Solid understanding of modern cloud-native systems (especially containers and Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring.
- Proven ability to lead projects or own critical systems in production.
- Experience in building highly available, scalable, distributed systems in a Microservices based architecture
- GitOps and deployment tools (ArgoCD, Kargo, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)
- IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Developer platform or internal tooling experience in a fast-paced environment
- Strong understanding of SDLC practices
- Hands-on experience with IasC, GitOps, CI/CD
- Working knowledge of Containerization, network protocols, encryption, and security.
- Experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production across multiple infrastructures.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate delivery: Lead efforts to reduce Time to Prod across all services by improving automation and tooling.
- Build for impact: Design and implement developer-facing infrastructure that reduces friction and improves software quality across Celonis’s engineering teams.
- Shape the roadmap: Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Celonis’ internal developer platform.
- Drive adoption: Lead initiatives to expand GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service patterns across engineering teams.
- Feature flags approach: Help scale feature flag-based deployment strategies to enable controlled, reliable, progressive rollouts.
- Scale reliability: Enhance observability, incident response, and deployment safety across Celonis’s software stack.
- Own what you build: Take ownership of critical systems—from concept to rollout to support—in partnership with SRE, Platform Infrastructure, and Product teams.
Other
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- This position is not available now or in the future for immigration visa sponsorship
