About the Role

Job Title: Software Engineer (DevEx)
Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (On-site or Remote in Germany)
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering

Responsibilities

• Empower Developers: Build internal tooling and workflows that boost productivity and satisfaction.
• CI/CD Optimization: Enhance performance across pipelines (e.g., caching, parallelization, resource usage).
• Security & Compliance: Implement automated solutions (e.g., Vanta, Snyk) to enforce secure software delivery practices.
• Dev Environment Standardization: Ensure scalable and reproducible environments using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Monitoring & Observability: Improve logging, alerting, and insight generation using Grafana, Kibana, and Sentry.
• Infrastructure Ownership: Design secure, scalable automation solutions and lead platform-level architectural improvements.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner with SRE/Core teams and support junior engineers with knowledge sharing.
• Operational Excellence: Proactively propose and lead cross-team improvements to drive engineering success.
• Developer Lifecycle Management: Manage onboarding/offboarding tooling and access provisioning securely.
• Customer Engagement: Participate in architecture/security discussions with customers when needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, preferably in a platform or DevOps role.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and modern infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Proficiency in backend development using TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Golang.
• Strong Linux terminal skills and experience with container debugging.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and pipeline optimization techniques.
• Experience with security and compliance tooling like Snyk, Vanta, or equivalent.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS preferred).
• Proven ability to collaborate, mentor, and lead process improvements across engineering teams.
• Observability expertise (Grafana, Sentry, Kibana) and a systems-thinking mindset.
• Comfortable making architectural decisions and owning secure, reliable developer infrastructure.

Benefits

• Attractive and performance-oriented salary.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• 25 days paid leave, plus 5 floating days, plus public holidays.
• Unique opportunity to help build and shape the company, with little hierarchy.
• Flexible working options.
• Colleague recognition, reward, and celebration events.
• Global Employee Assistance Program.
• ClassPass membership for fitness and wellness experiences.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities, including Udemy.
• One paid ‘Giving Back Day' each year for volunteering.
• Subscription to the Calm app for you and five friends/family members.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Cognigy does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in the provision of employment opportunities and benefits.