Senior DevOps Engineer [f/m/x] (full-time)| SaaS | Remote within EU possible in AUSTRIA

🎤 Who we are:

Swat.io is an independent, self-financed SaaS company helping marketers manage Social Media Publishing and Community Management.

We’re product-led and focused on building a product that users actually love. Following a Self-Service-first approach, we focus on self-service customers as our main target audience and treat our product as the main engine of growth. We build our product to let customers experience their entire journey, from trial to growing customer to cancellation, as independently as possible, while our Sales team drives strategic sales opportunities, working with customers who value in-person interaction and guidance.

Our goal is to continue growing sustainably and join the top 1% of SaaS companies with over €10 million in ARR. We want to create a meaningful impact for our customers, team, and company, becoming an integral part of our customers’ daily workflow. Guided by our values - we add value, we drive progress, we own it, we thrive together - we prioritize quality over quantity, focusing on exceptional talent and a collaborative, supportive culture. We believe that revenue follows quality, not the other way around.

We’re rethinking how Swat.io works, exploring how AI is reshaping our market, product, and workflows, and what it means for our future. At Swat.io, 50 people from diverse backgrounds work lean and agile. And we’re looking for makers who thrive in this kind of environment.

🦄 Who you are:

You’ll join our team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in owning and improving our infrastructure. You’ll complete our DevOps team alongside our experienced DevOps engineer and two backend engineers, who share DevOps responsibilities part-time. 

With deep experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and SRE, you’ll lead initiatives end-to-end, optimizing cloud architecture, pipelines, and monitoring. You bring some coding experience and have a maker mindset that builds systems to last.

Clear communication and collaboration help you influence decisions and share knowledge. You’ll thrive in a fully senior team that values sparring at eye level, minimal meetings, and the freedom to explore and grow.

Who you are not:

This role is not for someone early in their DevOps career, looking to move into leadership soon, or aiming for a simple “keep-it-running” job. If you prefer strict hand-holding or shy away from independent responsibility and project leadership, this won’t be the right fit.

💡Purpose of the role:

We open this role to strengthen our DevOps capabilities, reduce single points of failure, and enable the team to focus on impactful initiatives. You’ll own critical infrastructure, ensure stability, and scale systems efficiently, while exploring improvements and new technologies. Your work directly impacts our modern stack and the performance of our product, which handles millions of social media requests daily.

You’ll be trusted to take full ownership of:

• AWS cloud administration: Setting up, securing, and optimizing costs, while keeping the system monitored and running smoothly.
• K8S administration: Leading improvements, optimizing our setup, and ensuring smooth operations
• SRE: Ensuring uptime, performance, and resilience with robust monitoring and debugging
• IaC & Deployment Management: Maintaining configuration and improving workflows for developer efficiency.
• Impact-driven improvements: Driving infrastructure changes that boost performance and productivity
• Collaboration: Working closely with senior engineers, contributing to decisions, and raising the bar across the stack

🦸 Are you ready for this?

We define ready as:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps. We value skills, impact, and problem-solving over strict years of experience
• Strong knowledge of the software development process, with experience in at least one coding language (preferably: GoLang, Python). Development experience is appreciated. 
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (including operators & CRDs)
• Track record of troubleshooting and resolving issues in web applications running on Kubernetes
• Team player who collaborates effectively, explains ideas clearly, and can confidently persuade and bring others along when driving improvements.
• Growth mindset, actively making use of AI and modern DevOps practices, and a willingness to learn further
• Autonomous, self-led, and proactive - able to set priorities, manage your own time, and drive projects forward without constant direction
• Strong communicator in English, skilled in expressing complex ideas, decisions, and reasoning clearly

If this opportunity catches your eye and you are passionate about the field of work, we are happy to receive your application. If we both think we are a good match, and team fit is as important to us as a technical fit, we will find a solution and grow together.

Please note: we can only consider candidates who are currently residing in the EU and have the legal right to work here, as visa and relocation support are not available for this position.

🥞 Our stack/How we work:

You will use:

• AWS cloud API (EKS, ASM, ACM, WAF, ALB, etc...)
• Git/GitHub/GitHub Actions
• YAML, HCL, Bash, Python, Golang
• Docker, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Terraform, Kustomize, Helm
• Kubernetes (We work with operators and CRDs)
• Grafana, VictoriaMetrics
• The entire Swat.io team collaborates on Slack, Linear, Google Meet, Notion, Google Suite, and FigJam.

Product Unit Guiding Principles

Iterate Agilely:

• We prefer small iterations over waterfall.
• We ship often & early.
• We embrace continuous change.

Simplicity Wins:

• Simplicity is in our DNA
• No project is too small, but there is definitely a „too big“.
• We value clear and simple design.
• Simplicity also means no technical debt.

Collaboration First/ one for all, all for one:

• Arguments before ego.
• We are one team that supports each other.
• We are managers of ourselves.

Data-Driven Excellence:

• Data is a strong argument.
• Challenge the status quo.

Positive Team Culture:

• We are good & fun people.
• We assume the best intent.
• We give feedback because we care about each other.

❤️ What you’ll find:

• All-senior dev team: real sparring, eye-level discussions 
• Full ownership & impact: exciting opportunity to shape the product, explore different directions, and grow on the job without restrictions
• Development Budget: €1,000 per year + 4 additional days off for your professional development.
• Salary: Permanent contract with a gross annual salary starting at €70.000 (pre-tax) for a full-time work week, depending on qualifications and experience.
• Professional equipment: We’ll equip you with everything you need: MacBook, smartphone, headset, and more.
• Flexibility: We work with a flexible hours model with no core working hours that allows you to shape your workdays around your needs and those of your team and customers. 
• Remote-friendly model: You can comfortably work full-remote from your country and/or from our Vienna office. Whatever works best for you, as long as you are located in the EU. You can also work abroad from anywhere in the world for up to 3 months per year - just keep time zones in mind.
• In-office collaboration: Twice a year, we bring everyone in the company to Vienna to work on company-wide topics and connect with the team in person. 
• Family-friendly: We guarantee your job after parental leave and offer flexible working hours. Around 40% of our team members are parents, showing how seriously we take work-life balance.
• Team spirit: At Swat.io, we are makers who excel at what we do while caring for each other’s well-being and creating a supportive environment. We have regular team activities and bi-annual company events that bring all Swaties from around the world together to connect and celebrate.
• Public transport support: If you’re based in Austria, we support you with a yearly public transport ticket (Vienna public transport pass or a portion of the KlimaTicket).

We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

❌ What you won’t find at Swat.io:

• Annoying micro-management
• Office politics
• Lengthy coordination and approval processes
• Monotonous tasks and boring work
• Egos and bullshit before real results

🗓 Our process:

Your contact people are Jane, our Talent Partner, and Johannes, our CEO Product, and the direct manager for this role.

1. CV screening
2. Cultural Interview with Jane
3. Technical interview with Johannes and Michel, our Senior DevOps Engineer
4. Recruiting challenge with Johannes and the DevOps Team
5. Offer & open questions

Preferred Starting Date: December 2025 - January 2026 

Our job posting got your attention – great! We are looking forward to getting to know you better. Show us who you are – we are interested in your personality and how you fit into our team to support our ambitions. 

👀 Meet our DevOps Team:

Michel, the ops person, the company needed. Knows everything about the cloud, deals with challenging projects, and has been our first full-time dev ops since 2022. From managing clusters to talking about music, there’s nothing you can’t discuss with Michel. 50% dev ops, 50% caring father.   

Markus, the guy who kicked off (Dev-)Ops 10 years ago when suggesting we should add ElasticSearch to our stack. He quickly took over all of the ops parts until we migrated to the cloud and found full-time heroes continuing this journey. 40% dev, 10% dev ops, 50% caring father.

Thomas, the person who is always taking over the most difficult projects, no matter what. With his calm, structured, and well-documented approach, he tackles every challenge. 40% dev ops, 10% dev, 50% caring father. 

Johannes, our CEO Product/Head of Development, is leading the team. Next to having a lot of business hats on, he loves to spend time with his daughter and go for a run. He is always busy, but always there to help you. 25% CEO, 10% Head of Development, 5% Head of Dev Ops, 10% Head of Everything else, 50% caring father.