Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d) Block Storage Provisioning / 1673

Tasks

• Maintain and improve our existing block storage provisioning
• Design and develop the next generation of our storage provisioning
• Add monitoring and alerting for the provisioning workflow to detect failures early
• Make provisioning robust against failures and safe to retry
• Design and implement provisioning that keeps storage highly available and redundant, including failover
• Analyze and resolve complex issues across the storage stack, from the Linux kernel up to the provisioning layer
• Migrate from legacy components step by step, without breaking existing users

Qualifications

• Expert Go skills and several years of professional development experience
• Deep knowledge of Linux, including the kernel, block storage, software RAID (MD), LVM and network block devices (NBD, RNBD)
• Experience with VMs (libvirt, QEMU, cloud-init), building VM images and developing Kubernetes Operators
• Working knowledge of C, enough to read and debug low-level code
• Fluency with Git, Docker, shell and CI/CD, including GitOps workflows (for example ArgoCD)
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) to monitor provisioning and troubleshoot issues
• Experience building highly available, redundant systems, including replication, failover and distributed-systems fundamentals (idempotency, retries, consistency, failure handling)
• Affinity to cloud environments and to automating infrastructure provisioning
• Daily use of AI coding assistants (for example Claude) in your development work
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a structured, independent way of working in a team

Benefits

• Hybrid working model.
• Flexible working hours through trust-based working hours.
• At some locations a subsidized canteen and various free drinks.
• Modern office space with very good transport connections.
• Various employee discounts for activities and products.
• Employee events such as summer and winter parties, as well as workshops.
• Numerous training and development opportunities.
• Various health offers, such as sports and health courses.

Bereitgestellt in Kooperation mit der Bundesagentur für Arbeit.