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 ~$50M, led by IVP with Left Lane Capital and Speedinvest. IVP has also backed Figma, Slack, and Dropbox

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

You'll do well here if 🎉

You pick up problems nobody assigned you. If something's broken and no one has stepped up, you're the person who does
You'd rather make the call and adjust than wait until you're certain. Velocity is the only advantage that can't be copied
You want to own a domain deeply enough that people rely on your judgement in it, whether or not you manage anyone
You'll argue for your position and commit fully when the call goes the other way
You care about details other people would call excessive. Our standards are higher than most people think is reasonable, on purpose
You use AI constantly and still own every word you ship

It's probably not the right fit if 🥺

You need consensus before you move
You'd rather specialise narrowly than own a whole problem end to end
You find it draining to have your thinking challenged in the open. We do that a lot, and it's sometimes uncomfortable

Every new hire should raise the bar in some meaningful way, not just fill a seat. We hold to that, and it's why you'll be working with the most talented people from all over the world.

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
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!