A little about us
AI-native design: Kittl is becoming the AI-native, operating system for creative businesses. We give small brands the creative firepower to look credible and get from idea to launch-ready, with no agency and no design team
Rapid growth: 11 million users since 2022
Diverse team: 120+ people from 30+ countries, with offices in Berlin and Düsseldorf and teammates working remotely
Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product Managers and Designers sit at the core of what we build
Strong backing: Raised over $50M, led by IVP with Left Lane Capital and Speedinvest. IVP has also backed Figma, Slack, and Dropbox
Learn more: www.kittl.com/career
Your role at Kittl
As a Senior DevOps Engineer on Kittl’s Platform team, you will help build and evolve the reliable, secure, and cost-efficient foundation that enables our product teams to ship quickly in an AI-driven environment. You will work across our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform security to improve release confidence and operational excellence.
In this role, you will partner closely with engineers across backend, frontend, data, and AI teams to remove operational bottlenecks, improve developer workflows, and standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated. This is a hands-on role with clear impact, directly contributing to outcomes such as more reliable CI pipelines, faster incident detection, and improved infrastructure cost visibility.
What you'll do
Improve CI reliability & developer productivity: Reduce flaky pipelines and shorten feedback loops across CI/CD systems to improve developer experience and delivery speed
Strengthen observability & incident readiness: Build actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for key user journeys to help teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster
Operate and evolve our Kubernetes platform: Manage and improve our AWS EKS environment, ensuring safe deployments, runtime reliability, and scalable infrastructure
Drive infrastructure automation: Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Pulumi and TypeScript; build reusable platform primitives and self-service patterns for engineering teams
Improve security & governance: Strengthen access management, secrets handling, and secure defaults across infrastructure and engineering workflows
Optimize infrastructure costs: Identify major cost drivers such as data transfer, compute usage, and logging; improve cost visibility and ownership across teams
What you’ll need
Kubernetes & cloud expertise: At least 5 years production experience running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) and troubleshooting distributed systems
CI/CD expertise: Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar) and a track record of improving pipeline reliability
Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools and building reusable infrastructure patterns
Observability knowledge: Practical experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and monitoring tools such as Grafana
Security mindset: Understanding of IAM, access control, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and secure operational practices
Collaborative approach: Comfortable working cross-functionally and driving technical initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes
Interview process
Recruiter interview (30 min)
Technical interview I (60 min)
Technical interview II (60 min)
Interview with CTO (30 min) & cross-functional team interview (30 min)
Bar raiser interview with Head of Data (45 min)
Our core tech stack
AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Docker, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript/Node.js
We are looking for someone
Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo
Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done
Who goes above and beyond in their role
Who is deeply passionate about what they do
Benefits
Maximise your impact: Real ownership of what you ship. Whether you lead a team or lead through craft, we back you to do the work that matters most
Shape AI-native creative work: Kittl sits where AI, design, and commerce meet. You'll build the tools that decide what professional looks like for our next million users
AI enablement: We use AI across the company, not just in the product
Passionate team: Quarterly hackathons for experimenting with new concepts, pushing boundaries, and delivering the next big thing
Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
Work-life balance: 30 vacation days a year, plus public holidays
Flexible hours: Core hours are 11am to 5pm CET. How you build the rest of your day is up to you
Hybrid working style: 3 days a week in our office in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, the rest of the week from home
Remote work: On top of that, work from anywhere in the world for up to 50 days (10 weeks) a year, as long as you're reachable during core hours
VESOP: Enrollment in our Virtual Employee Stock Option Plan. When Kittl grows in value, you share in it
Lunch: Daily chef-prepared meals in the office.
Mobility: Your monthly BVG ticket, fully covered
Health & fitness: Urban Sports Club M membership
Learning & development: Annual L&D budget for your professional growth
German classes: Online group courses at every level
🌈 At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!