Senior Platform Engineer

Who you are

• You resonate with Synera's Core Values - they're central to how we work, and we'll explore them together in your first interview
• You have 5+ years of experience building backend software in C#/.NET
• You have a track record of decoupling backend logic from a UI or desktop layer — extracting services, removing hard dependencies, and making code run headless and under test
• You've containerized production applications with Docker (multi-stage builds, Linux images, image-size control) — beyond tutorial level
• You've built and owned CI/CD pipelines that teams rely on
• You've packaged software for environments the vendor doesn't control: on-prem or customer-hosted install, upgrade, configuration, and secrets management
• You work AI-native: you use AI tooling in your daily engineering and want to build agent-facing tooling for the platform
• You work autonomously and drive work to a finished, deployed state
• You're fluent in English at professional working proficiency

What the job involves

• Synera is the leading AI Agent Platform for Engineering — companies like BMW, Airbus, NASA, and Hyundai use it to build autonomous digital engineers that execute real work inside CAD, CAE, and PLM tools. Today the product runs as a Windows desktop application. We're building a server-hosted product customers can deploy on their own infrastructure, and you'll join the team that owns the transition end to end
• You'll be the first engineer on our new Platform team. That means extracting the .NET backend from its desktop dependencies, containerizing it with Docker, and standing up the CI/CD, install, upgrade, and licensing flows for on-prem deployment, as well as taking over auth tasks
• In parallel, you'll join our efforts to make the platform AI-native: building MCP servers, agent skills, and documentation written for AI agents — not just humans — to operate the platform
• As the work matures, you'll contribute to growing a small, senior team around it
• You'll report to Ben and work closely with Sven and the broader engineering org, including being part of the Chaotic Chimeras team in the beginning. This is real ownership: you drive work to a finished, deployed state and raise blockers early
• Monday: Daily standup with the Chimeras team, then a deep focus block untangling the backend from its desktop dependencies. Every other Monday you join the cross-team dev share to swap learnings with engineers from the other teams
• Tuesday: Heads-down getting a service running headless inside a multi-stage Docker image. On alternating Tuesdays the team runs an AI experimentation day — you point a new agent or tool at a real platform workflow and see what sticks
• Wednesday: Work on the CI/CD pipeline so images build, test, and publish on their own
• Thursday: Sprint review and planning. You demo the latest slice of the migration, scope the next one, then work on the on-prem install flow — upgrade, rollback, and licensing for a customer-run server
• Friday: Every other Friday afternoon is yours for upskilling — a conference talk, a new tool, or a book from your €2,000 development budget
• In 6 months: The backend runs headless in Docker across dev, test, and staging — fully lifted out of its desktop dependencies
• In 6 months: A first on-prem deployment is live in an internal or friendly-customer environment, and CI/CD builds, tests, and publishes images without anyone babysitting it
• In 6 months: The platform's first MCP server or agent skill is in use, with deployment docs written for AI agents to act on
• In 12 months: Customers install, upgrade, and roll back the on-prem server themselves — the migration is proven end to end at a real customer site
• In 12 months: The Platform team has grown to two or three engineers, and the standards and onboarding you wrote make them productive fast
• In 12 months: MCPs and agent skills cover the main deploy and operations workflows, and internal teams reach for them day to day
• In 12 months: Observability is live in production, not just planned. Telemetry gives real visibility into every deployed instance, so “is it healthy” is a dashboard, not a Slack message to you
• In 12 months: First steps are made towards a fully cloud-native infrastructure setup that could power a SaaS solution
• Synera is a place where everyone can grow. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day, and be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our R&D team

Benefits

• Powerful equipment - Synera empowers its team members with the equipment they need to do their best work.
• Company offsites - Synera is a remote/hybrid company - which is why it enjoys regrouping for two offsites per year.
• Company fitness & Jobrad - Healthy body, healthy mind. Synera enables its team members to keep up with their health!
• Development budget - Never stop learning: Synera wants its team members to grow and continuously learn new things!
• Team spirit - Synera enjoys spending time with each other and places a high value on functioning as a team - no siloes, no politics, and lots of laughs.
• Flexibility - As a remote/hybrid company, Synera offers all the flexibility of a modern company to attract exceptional talent.