LEAD CLOUD SOFTWARE ENGINEER CACHING DATABASES - STACKIT (m/f/d)

Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling – IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof!

The impact you will create:

• Own the Valkey Integration: You will lead the technical design, architecture, and integration of our new Valkey (and Redis-compatible) managed service into our sovereign cloud ecosystem.
• Automation & DBaaS: You will drive the automation of deployment, replication, backup, and patching processes, turning complex caching infrastructure into a seamless "self-service" model controlled via Golang-based REST/gRPC APIs.
• System Design & Scale: You will design robust, highly available, and fault-tolerant caching solutions, proactively optimizing configurations and capacity to scale with customer demand.
• End-to-End Ownership: We live by "You build it, you run it." You will accompany your services from the first line of code through Kubernetes orchestration to incident analysis (Post-Mortems).
• Technical Leadership: You will guide the technical direction of the product and mentor team members, raising the bar for engineering excellence and modern SRE practices.

Must Haves:

• Strong System Design Foundations: You understand how to architect distributed, scalable, and highly available systems.
• Backend & API Engineering: You are proficient in Golang and have a solid track record of building clean, reliable APIs (REST, gRPC) to control infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You feel at home writing clean automation using Terraform or Ansible.
• Continuous Learning Mindset: You are genuinely excited to master our tech stack, dive deep into database internals, and constantly upgrade your technical skills.
• SRE & Observability Culture: You care about reliability, fault tolerance, and know your way around monitoring ecosystems like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Communication: Fluent in English to collaborate effectively within our agile, international team.

Nice to Have:

• Caching Database Expertise: Deep understanding of Valkey / Redis architectures, including clustering, high availability setups, and performance tuning.
• Container-Native Landscapes: Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and ideally, Kubernetes Operators for database orchestration.
• Security First: Knowledge of securing data-in-transit/at-rest and network isolation in cloud environments.