Senior Software Engineer, Personio
Reliability
+ Pre-IPO equity
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Open for applications
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Pre-IPO equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organisations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in SaaS software development, building and shipping production systems in a distributed-systems context, with strong proficiency in at least one of: Kotlin, Java, TypeScript or Python
- 2+ years working in a backend/platform engineering role in agile environments
- 2+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Good knowledge of modern application/infrastructure monitoring concepts (Datadog experience advantageous)
- Comfortable reading, debugging and contributing to backend service code, not only infrastructure configuration
- Systematic problem solving/debugging skills, coupled with a strong sense of ownership
- Excellent written and verbal communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work independently in a result-oriented way
Desirable
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks
- Experience reducing on-call toil for engineers by automating repetitive operational work, tuning alerts to improve signal-to-noise or building self-healing mechanisms
- Experience with Kafka/Debezium Connectors
- Experience with PostgreSQL databases
What the job involves
- Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry
- Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference
- As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies
- Personio is seeking an experienced Engineer to design, build, operate, monitor and scale our infrastructure through automated solutions
- You’ll empower engineering teams by sharing cloud platform expertise, developing tools and establishing company wide mechanisms to ensure reliability, scalability and uptime
- Our ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, working closely with other engineering teams to build, scale and enhance their applications on our platform
- Design and build the platforms and automated tooling, including AI-assisted agents, that enable engineering teams to scale their infrastructure on demand and embed reliability practices directly into how they work
- Engage in and improve the full service lifecycle from initial design and inception through to deployment, operation and continuous improvement
- Prepare services for production by engaging in system design reviews, developing shared frameworks and platforms, planning capacity and conducting launch assessments
- Operate, monitor and maintain live services by tracking key metrics such as availability, latency and overall system health
- Design and implement observability stacks and dashboards (e.g. Datadog, CloudWatch) to improve operational insight across logs, metrics, traces and alerts
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define SLOs and error budgets to ensure services are reliable, scalable and observable
- Identify and reduce toil through process automation, creating playbooks and building automated runbooks to reduce MTTR
- Partner on security posture and compliance metric reviews related to operational reliability
- Mentor, train and grow the community. Guide engineers across teams in reliability best practices and tooling
Our take
Personio was set up to automate and simplify HR tasks with a single software. This means reducing admin and accelerating efficiency with data and processes seamlessly integrating with each other.
What sets Personio apart from its competitors is the fact that its solution covers all the core HR processes that are key to every company’s success and can be performed in one place. This gives HR professionals the time and energy to focus on more strategic topics like talent development and employer branding. Now, Personio has over 15,000 customers, among which are 1.5 million employees using its software.
With substantial funding from multiple investors, Personio is focused on growing the tools it offers as well as expanding into what it describes as “people workflow automation". With 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses still stuck in the spreadsheet era, Personio will deliver even more value to businesses in years to come.
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Meet the team
4 people
Aleena, Software Engineer
Our mission
Empower people with AIInsights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$200m
Series E
Oct 2021
$270m
Series E
Total funding: $724.2m
Company benefits
- Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
- Make an impact on the environment and society with Impact Days
- Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
- Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
- Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
- Find your best way to work with our office-led, and remote-friendly PersonioFlex!
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations: We anticipate, prioritise, and solve for the needs of our customers
- Deliver Exceptional Results: We dream big and move with urgency to make great things happen
- Elevate One Another: We work together as trusted partners to amplify our collective impact
- Care to Challenge: We care personally and challenge directly to unlock our full potential
- Ignite Positive Momentum: We embrace the challenge with a positive mindset and celebrate our wins together
Company HQ
Dublin, Ireland
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Leadership
Hanno Renner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Feedbackme in 2015 and is a member of the "Advisory Board of the Young Digital Economy".
Jonas Rieke
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked in Business Development at komoot and Hendrick & Schwartz. They also worked in Investment Management at Project A Ventures.
Alexander Grant
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Previously the Senior Director of Product Management at Hootsuite, they also have prior experience as Director of Operations at a B2B startup.
Lenke Taylor
(Chief People Officer)Leading people-centered vision and teams to build global companies.
Philip Lacor
(Chief Revenue Officer)Previously the CRO at Airbase and Envoy. They also spent 4 years at Dropbox in various VP roles. Prior to that, they spent nearly 6 years at Vodafone as a Director and MD of Enterprise Business Units.
People progressing
Alexander joined Personio in 2020 as a Working Student in Sales Operations, since then, they have worked their way up and now serve as a Business Development Team Lead.
Victoria joined Personio in 2017 as an Account Executive and has since held a number of roles. Since 2025, they have served as the Director of Sales SMB Germany.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Personio
- Our Count Me In DEI survey is designed to measure our progress towards our DEI goals and identify gaps and improvement areas to inform our planning of future initiatives.
- Our Diversity Committee ensures all communities have an equal voice in everything we do and includes representation from our six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We build inclusion through monthly educational sessions, empowerment programs, and celebrations that promote awareness and allyship.
- Supporting and uplifting women in tech is one of the most impactful ways to drive positive change. Building on our 2025 initiatives, we have continued these efforts and introduced additional programs, maintaining our commitment to long-term progress as we move through 2026 and beyond.
- To find out more about Personio’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to ensure we are a company where everyone can embrace their uniqueness, visit our page https://www.personio.com/about-personio/diversity/
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