Zalion
Zalion

Platform Engineer

Munich, Germany (hybrid)
Employee
IT
80.000 € to 150.000 € / year

Zalion is on a mission to eliminate repetitive procurement work through agentic AI. We’re building autonomous agents that operate deep within enterprise procurement — navigating messy data, legacy systems, and complex workflows to deliver real impact.

Join us early and help define how enterprise AI is done right.

Tasks

You will:

  • Own our platform foundations end-to-end — from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
  • Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults).
  • Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform — with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation.
  • Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction.
  • Drive availability, scalability, and resilience: deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning.
  • Implement pragmatic security-by-default: least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety.
  • Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team.
  • Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows.

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production.
  • Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure.
  • Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews.
  • Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops.
  • A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs).
  • Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.
  • A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs.
  • 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus).

Benefits

  • Build the platform behind agentic AI systems that run in real enterprise environments
  • Massive autonomy, zero bureaucracy
  • Immediate impact — your work accelerates every engineer and every release
  • Modern stack, no legacy constraints
  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • High-end equipment

🛠️ Tech Stack You’ll Work With

  • AWS (core services; compute, networking, IAM, logging/monitoring, managed data services)
  • Terraform (modules, workspaces, validation, state management)
  • GitHub (Actions, CI/CD workflows, checks, release automation)
  • Containers orchestration (e.g., ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes depending on evolution)
  • Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing; e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry and friends)
  • Security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy as code
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Zalion

11-50 employees
Software Development

Zalion is a leading Procurement AI start-up revolutionizing industrial procurement. We use cutting-edge AI agents to automate manual Source-to-Pay processes, freeing up procuremen…

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