Product Software Engineer (midsenior) Kubermatic Dev Platform (f,m,d)

Hamburg - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location:Europe (Time zone: CET: /- 4h) or on-side/hybrid in Hamburg Germany. We are a remote-first company.

About Us

Kubermatic is an adaptable and autonomous software delivery startup based in Hamburg (founded 2016). Our tools are built with Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions to deliver the automated flexible and resilient infrastructure that modern businesses need to thrive and innovate.

Were maintainers of CNCF Sandbox Project kcp and among the leading European corporate contributors to Kubernetes. Our engineering team actively contributes to CNCF projects and open-sources our core products on GitHub. We regularly present at industry conferences and community events.

Youll be joining the KDP (Kubermatic Development Platform) team which brings self-service developer platforms to enterprises. KDP leverages kcp to deliver a novel approach for building multi-tenant platforms. By providing a centralized catalog it simplifies the creation integration and management of services greatly lowering the operational burden for DevOps platform and developer teams.

Were a fast-moving startup with a strong engineering culture. If youre excited about experimentation technology and making a real impact youll thrive here. Theres plenty of room for your ideas and growth!

Role Summary

As a product engineer on our 5-person team youll drive features from discovery to delivery and shape architectural and product decisions. Youll engage directly with users to understand their challenges and pain points. We work closely as a team often pairing on features to deliver high-quality software faster. Our development approach emphasizes tracer-bullet developmentgetting working solutions in front of customers earlyfollowed by iterative refinement.

Youll work primarily in Go developing Kubernetes operators and high-availability services that power our platform. KDP is currently available as a standalone on-premises solution and as we prepare to launch a new SaaS offering youll help evolve our tech stack to meet these emerging requirements.

What will you be doing

Design build and refine KDP features with a focus on user value and technical excellence.
Break down implementations into iterative deliverables and determine optimal rollout strategies.
Develop scalable services and Kubernetes Operators in Go that power our platform.
Own features end-to-endfrom discovery through deliveryincluding direct engagement with users.
Stay current with customer challenges and emerging trends in the platform engineering space.
Contribute patches to upstream projects such as when opportunities arise.
Extend the MCP server for KDP and integrate with leading AI tools.
Participate in the on-call rotation.

What You Should Bring

You genuinely enjoy creating tools that make other engineers lives easier and their work more productive.
3 years of professional experience with Go and 1 year working with Kubernetes controllers and operators.
Strong proficiency in distributed systems container technologies Kubernetes the cloud-native ecosystem and AWS (or GCP).
Experience building internal developer platforms or infrastructure-as-code solutions using Operators is a big plus.
Familiarity with feature flags and progressive delivery practices is beneficial.
Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills a pragmatic problem-solving mindset genuine curiosity about customer challenges and empathy for KDP users.

What we offer

Competitive salary
B2B contracts available with paid time off annually plus local bank holidays
Remote-first: work from anywhere in Europe (CET 4h)
A dynamic yet laid-back team environment
Regular hackathons and company offsites
Best-in-class development tools of your choice
Full support for training and certifications (CKA Linux Foundation etc.) and conference attendance
Speaker support: well back you if you want to present at events
Active community involvement: enjoy our meetups and our flagship community conference ContainerDays

Location:Europe (Time zone: CET: /- 4h) or on-side/hybrid in Hamburg Germany. We are a remote-first company.About UsKubermatic is an adaptable and autonomous software delivery startup based in Hamburg (founded 2016). Our tools are built with Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions to deliver the autom...