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About Garden

Garden's mission is to keep developers productive and happy in the cloud-native

Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies have made us better than ever at operating our systems in production, but the day-to-day development experience has been left lagging

Developers spend less time in flow, and more time waiting for builds, debugging scripts, or otherwise fighting their We're here to fix

Our platform which includes our open source core product allows developer to work on distributed systems in remote, production-like dev environments while enjoying the same fast and frictionless feedback loops we've come to expect when developing a single service

It's a platform that democratizes the kind of advanced developer tooling that only the largest software companies have the resources to build and

We're still a small team and you'd be joining as an individual contributor at a time where you can have a huge impact on our product and our If you've ever thought to yourself that something's not right with our modern development workflows, now's your chance to help fix it!

Tasks

Our open-source core product is a pluggable, graph-based, cloud development That's a mouthful, but in essence, it's an engine that's optimized for building, testing, and deploying workloads that run on the It features plugins for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and more and we're always looking to the future in terms of what technologies to As one of four Open Core Developers, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the core engine and main

More specifically:

• You and your team will work closely with the founders and together you will decide on the direction and architecture of Garden
• You'll be in close contact with our community, triaging issues, receiving feedback and weaving it into our overall product
• You'll work on functionality that interfaces with other cloud native products such as Kubernetes and
• You'll write code, lots of Most workflows and pipelines are already set up and the developer experience is At the same time, there are a ton of exciting features that'll delight developers worldwide that we can't wait to So in short, you'll get to do all the fun And since it's all open source, you can see exactly what that looks like by checking out the
• You ll write, maintain and improve documentation, guides and examples around the

Requirements

Garden solves problems for teams developing distributed systems that can run on We're looking for someone that understands the challenges that these teams face, and wants to join us in building developer tooling that helps our users overcome

You are the right person for this position if:

• You have 2+ years of experience as a backend engineer with and
• You're passionate about developer tooling and
• You are interested in distributed systems (or micro-services) and the cloud native technologies used to build and run
• You re interested in open source products and
• You have experience working in remote distributed teams and have excellent written communication
• You're happy to work with a team that is still figuring a lot of things out, and values trust, openness, and collaboration while doing
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or other cloud native technologies is a big plus (but not required).

We explicitly encourage applications from groups that are underrepresented in We celebrate and encourage diversity of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and Diversity is easier said than done but it's one of our founding principles to provide a diverse and inclusive

Benefits

• Culture striving towards individuals and teams doing their best work in a friendly, positive, diverse and inclusive environment
• Built by engineers for engineers
• Competitive compensation
• You can work fully remote or join us at our HQ in vibrant Berlin, Germany
• Wellness stipend and membership
• Equipment you feel comfortable with
• Professional development stipend

Our Process

We're a small team that tries to keep things simple and lean and that applies to our interview process as

The first step is a 30-minute intro call with Eythor, our CTO and Ines, our Senior Engineering The goal is to give both parties a chance to get to know one another, ask questions, discuss the role and culture at Garden and to talk about salary and

After that you ll have a 60-minute technical interview with our engineers on the Open Core There are no string reversal algorithms Instead, we anchor the conversation in things you've actually done in the past and dig deep into

The final step is a 60-minute demo + Q&A followed by a 30 minutes conversation with our Director of In the demo you present work you ve done in the past to the engineering We want everyone involved in the process, so this is also a chance for you to meet the rest of the team and vice