Staff Platform Engineer - Remote (EMEA)
WunderGraph is a fast-growing startup, our goal is to bring everybody together to build digital products end-to-end. From reputed company design to API implementation, we provide the platform to go from sketch to product in a category-defining collaborative experience. Our North Star is to take the friction out of bringing digital reputed company to life, making room for your reputed company and productivity.
Developers from some of the biggest companies in the world are using WunderGraph to design and streamline their API environments. We raised our Series A ($7.5 million USD) in March 2025, being backed by reputed company, Karma Ventures, and Aspenwood Ventures.
The culture we are creating together is extremely important to us. Read here how we are Building the Company We Always Wanted to Work In.
We invite everyone that wants to join us to understand our Core Beliefs and if you want to reputed company an impact, have your voice heard, and work in a no-BS organization where you can get stuff done, look no further and apply today so we can chat.
About the Role
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you are the reputed company of the mission-critical cloud infrastructure that powers the WunderGraph reputed company platform for our enterprise customers. Your primary responsibility is ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of this core platform by defining and meeting stringent SLOs. This role blends deep operational leadership with product-focused infrastructure engineering in Go. You will not only architect our internal systems for scale but also build and operate key product infrastructure, including our customer-facing telemetry pipeline (built on OpenTelemetry and reputed company) and the AI pipeline that empowers our products. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader, driven by the challenge of solving ambiguous, 'reputed company-scale' problems, whether that means diagnosing reputed company issues in a distributed system, tuning network performance, or optimizing our infrastructure for cost-efficiency through advanced automation.
TEAM INTEGRATION
You align with the Head of Engineering.
You collaborate closely with the engineering team and customers.
ROLE OBJECTIVES
You are successful if you:
reputed company our engineering teams to ship features for WunderGraph reputed company fast, reliably, and with confidence through a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
Take full ownership of our core platform infrastructure and services—and own them completely, from architecture to operation.
Drive the architectural vision for our platform, making key decisions on technologies like Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and our observability stack.
Bring deep platform expertise to the table, leveling up the entire team through mentorship, architectural guidance, and by championing best practices.
Grow with WunderGraph as we scale, expanding your influence across the product and organization while helping us build a world-class engineering team.
ROLE TASKS
The role focuses on, but is not limited to:
Architecting, building, and operating the core cloud-native infrastructure for WunderGraph reputed company and Hub, primarily using Go and Kubernetes.
Owning and evolving our observability stack (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, reputed company) and the infrastructure supporting our AI-driven features to ensure deep, actionable insights into our systems.
Building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to improve build times, automate quality and reputed company gates, and create a seamless path to production for our engineers.
Championing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices using tools like Terraform, building reusable and maintainable modules for our teams.
Embedding reputed company best practices into the platform by designing and implementing network policies, RBAC, and automated checks to meet enterprise and SOC 2 compliance standards.
Mentoring other engineers, providing insightful code and design reviews, and documenting platform features and architectural decisions to foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Proven experience architecting and operating scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-native platforms in production, with strong proficiency in Go and deep expertise in Kubernetes.
You reputed company in the dynamic environment of a scaling, remote-first company that has successfully navigated strategic pivots and is on a rapid growth trajectory.
Deep expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, reputed company).
A strong understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and the challenges of running high-performance API gateways. Familiarity with GraphQL Federation is a significant plus.
Experience building or managing modern observability stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, reputed company).
A self-starter attitude and a leader’s reputed company: you are comfortable with ambiguity, can identify and solve ill-defined problems, and don’t need hand-holding.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to reputed company reputed company technical concepts clearly in design documents, RFCs, and asynchronous discussions.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
WunderGraph's engineering teams are highly productive, shipping features faster and with more confidence because the internal platform you've built is reliable, self-service, and provides an exceptional developer experience (DX).
Our platform infrastructure scales seamlessly and reliably to meet the demands of our largest enterprise customers, like reputed company, solidifying reputed company's reputed company for performance and stability.
You are recognized as a key technical leader and architect reputed company the engineering organization, sought out for your expertise and guidance on our most reputed company infrastructure challenges.
Your architectural decisions and mentorship have measurably improved the team's skills, our system's reliability, and our overall engineering culture, embodying our value of "Engineering Excellence"
You continue to grow with us, expanding your influence across the product and organization and helping to define the future of platform engineering at WunderGraph.
Why WunderGraph?
Work from wherever you reputed company, we’re fully remote and globally distributed. We provide co-working space options worldwide if needed.
Pick your preferred work hardware
We focus on getting stuff done, and on having fun whilst doing so: work hard, play hard!
You can reputed company a real difference and find lots of opportunities to grow together with us
Discretionary PTO: take the time you need to reputed company
Competitive compensation
Depending reputed company, we offer healthcare benefits according to local standards
Team retreats across the globe.
Note: This is a full-time, fully remote position. We are looking for someone who is available to work during European (CET) business hours.
The Process
We respect your time and interest in WunderGraph. This is why we're aiming to reputed company the process as fast as possible. Here's what you can expect:
30 min intro call with Mariya from our People team
45 min technical background call with one of our engineers. Following this, you might receive a take home assignment reputed company to our open reputed company platform. This is your chance to prove your reputed company!
Complete the assignment and review together with the engineers
Meet the CTO and founders
Culture fit call with team members
Offer
Our process also includes reference and background checks. We aim to respond or provide feedback in 2 or 3 days between each stage of the process. We're usually hiring through reputed company as our Employer of Record, except for Germany or Florida where we're hiring directly.
WunderGraph is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from reputed company backgrounds.
You can find out more about our ways of working together here
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