Senior IoT Cloud Engineer

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1KOMMA5°IoT energy
You work remotely (Germany-wide)Full-TimeSenior
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Job Details

Languages
Clear and effective communicator in English (German is a plus)
Experience
5+ years of experience building and operating cloud / distributed backend systems in production
Required Skills
SQLKubernetesCI/CD

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating cloud or distributed backend systems in production.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, ideally GKE, and modern cloud-native operations.
  • Understanding of MQTT and device-to-cloud messaging patterns at scale, including back-pressure, QoS, and fan-out.
  • Experience designing and running observability pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to write SQL, model data, and build dashboards using data and BI tooling.
  • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and platform engineering practices.
  • Strong reliability and security mindset.
  • Ability to guide architectural decisions and work across embedded, hardware, data, and product teams.
  • Clear and effective communication in English; German is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own the cloud side of the IoT Platform connecting residential gateways and cloud services.
  • Operate and evolve the Kubernetes-based IoT Cloud Platform, including deployment, scaling, and hardening of connectivity and fleet services.
  • Develop and run the Eclipse Hono messaging backbone between gateways and the cloud.
  • Design, build, and operate fleet management features for gateways from production through field deployment.
  • Integrate with Mender to operate safe over-the-air rollouts across the fleet.
  • Contribute to load and resilience testing to verify platform scalability and identify limits.
  • Build and own observability pipelines, turning metrics into monitors, alerts, and self-healing mechanisms.
  • Build data pipelines and BI models that turn raw data into fleet insights.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, IoT engineers, and cloud engineers to develop solutions for a scalable virtual power plant.
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