Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (f/m/x)

<p>MAIA is the AI platform built for industrial companies - where generic AI tools break down because the data is complex, the stakes are high, and precision actually matters. We focus on the hard problems: integrating with real engineering workflows, understanding complex technical documents, and turning implicit organizational knowledge into something the whole company can build on.</p>
<p>Our goal is to become the leading AI knowledge management platform for industrial companies in Europe - built for the companies that shape the physical world.</p>
<p>Our team consists of structured organizational talents, creative minds, and technology-enthusiastic engineers, all with several years of experience in B2B SaaS and AI.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced professional to join our team as our <strong>first dedicated Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (f/m/x</strong>) - someone who will own this area end-to-end and build the foundation for everything that follows.</p>
<h2>Tasks</h2>
<p>This is a <strong>senior individual contributor role with full ownership</strong>. Your mission is to make MAIA's platform reliable, secure, auditable, and developer-friendly, at a stage where every decision you make has lasting impact.</p>
<ul>
<li>You take full ownership of our infrastructure - Hetzner first, AWS, GCP, and Azure for selected services</li>
<li>You own our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment workflows, continuously improving rollout strategies, versioning, and rollback procedures.</li>
<li>You build, improve and maintain our observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Sentry, Posthog) - metrics, logs, traces, and alerting that surfaces problems before customers do.</li>
<li>You implement and improve our security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, TLS, vulnerability scanning, and patch management.</li>
<li>You implement the technical controls required for our ISO 27001 certification and ensure evidence is continuously and auditably produced.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p><strong>Technical requirements</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Strong experience running production systems in a SaaS environment.</li>
<li>Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals, containers and reverse proxies and API gateways (e.g., Traefik, Kong).</li>
<li>Strong security fundamentals: IAM and least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and patching.</li>
<li>Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and observability tooling (Grafana/Loki or similar).</li>
<li>PostgreSQL operations basics: availability, backup and restore, performance awareness.</li>
<li>Fluent in English. German is a plus.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Ways of working</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Strong ownership mentality - you take responsibility end-to-end, without needing to be managed.</li>
<li>People enjoy working with you - not just because of what you know, but because of how you interact with them</li>
<li>Pragmatic builder - you improve systems without adding unnecessary complexity, and you can defend why a simpler approach was the right call.</li>
<li>AI is part of how you work - not just as a tool you use, but something you actively explore. You experiment with models, prompts, and workflows, and you have opinions about what actually works.</li>
<li>You prioritize based on risk and business impact, not technical interest alone.</li>
<li>Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities.</li>
<li>You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience with ISO 27001 implementation, especially technical controls.</li>
<li>Experience with NixOS.</li>
<li>Experience with self-hosted Supabase and Postgres-based platforms.</li>
<li>Experience with SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, and incident review culture.</li>
<li>Familiarity with multi-cloud usage patterns (Hetzner, AWS, Azure, GCP).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<p><strong>What we offer you:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The opportunity to build and own an entire platform engineering discipline from the ground up at a well-funded, fast-growing startup.</li>
<li>Short decision-making paths, real ownership, and a team that trusts you to lead your area.</li>
<li>Direct impact on product reliability, security posture, and company growth.</li>
<li>Flexible working hours and fully remote.</li>
<li>Access to a WellPass fitness membership for your physical and mental wellbeing.</li>
<li>Competitive salary of 70,000 - 80,000 EUR and VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan) participation opportunities.</li>
</ul>
<p>We are a remote-first company and have been since day one. Most of our team is based in Leipzig, but remote team members are a natural part of how we work - not an exception. We do bring the full team together in Leipzig, or somewhere else, a few times a year for team events and planning sessions, with all travel and accommodation costs covered.</p>
<p>If you are somewhere in Germany you are in scope.</p>
<p><strong>Hiring timeline:</strong> We are aiming to have this role filled by May 2026. The process consists of three stages: an intro call (30min), a technical interview (90min) and a final conversation with leadership.</p>
<p>We move quickly and will keep you informed at every step.</p>
<p>If this role sounds like the right next step for you, we would love to hear from you.</p>
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