(Senior) Platform Scalability Engineer (m/f/x) - onsite or remote (in Germany) in GERMANY

Our team's mission is to Increase the scalability, efficiency and performance of our platform by doing foundational work, implement critical improvement and support other teams by identifying technological opportunities, producing knowledge and sharing best practices.

Scalable Capital was built in the cloud from day one. Our services currently run on various AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Lambda and are distributed across multiple accounts. We embrace a DevOps culture where the development teams manage their CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for their services themself. Our Platform Scalability Engineering Team focuses on providing everything necessary to ensure Reliability and Scalability of our services and storages while being cost efficient. This includes solutions for Monitoring, Load Testing, Chaos Engineering and a Developer portal.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and understand scalability requirements for our platform, both in terms of user growth and increasing data volume.
• Design and rollout Monitoring best practices in Datadog including SLI, SLO and SLAs
• Research and develop service and storage improvements by using serverless technologies and optimise our services and CICD to optimise scalability, cost and performance
• Develop and maintain internal tooling around Monitoring, Developer Portal and Load Testing
• Mentor and enable our software development teams to further foster our DevOps culture by educating them and providing reusable and unified building blocks which can be used to improve scalability, reliability and performance of existing and new services
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and techniques related to scalability and performance engineering.
• Design and implement best practices around auto scaling of our infrastructure
• Run chaos engineering experiments to improve resilience of our services

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one public cloud provider and infrastructure as code (Preferably AWS)
• Good working knowledge in at least one general purpose programming language (Preferably Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js or Python) and build automations tools
• A degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences) or work experience in a role that typically requires a university degree
• Solid understanding of scalable system design principles, distributed systems, and cloud technologies
• A passion for automating, improving processes and working together with other developer teams
• Full professional proficiency in English and the ability to communicate concisely in an international English-speaking environment
• Previous experience in Monitoring, Container Orchestration and Microservice setups is an advantage
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich or Berlin Mitte, one of the hippest neighbourhoods of Berlin or choose to work remotely within Germany(if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Enjoy your free time with 30 paid vacation days and take the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker