Senior Kubernetes Engineer, Trade Republic
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2-3 days a week in office
Investment platform
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Investment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to create wealth with easy, safe and free access to the financial system.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related SRE/systems discipline
- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise: cluster architecture, scaling, security, and HA design in production environments
- Strong networking fundamentals: CNI, ingress, DNS, service mesh, and cross-region/cross-cloud connectivity
- Experience operating multi-region and/or multi-cloud environments in production
- Experience automating the cluster lifecycle - provisioning, upgrades, policy, and governance - with self-service enablement for developers
- Solid backend engineering background - Go is preferred but any strong language is welcome
- A pragmatic approach to applying infrastructure best practices in a way engineering teams actually adopt
- Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and clearly communicate trade-offs
- The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2-3 days a week in the office
What the job involves
- Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe-scale bank — serving internal engineers, and building in-house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure
- We’re a ~50-person Platform team focused on one thing: enabling product engineers to move fast and operate autonomously by default
- We build self-service platforms, golden paths, and opinionated tooling so that over 400 engineers can ship with confidence
- From Kubernetes fleet management and CI/CD to an internal Developer Hub built on Backstage, our work underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment that flows through the platform
- The foundation is in place. Now we need to take it further: hardening the platform, expanding to multi-region, pushing availability targets to meet mission-critical service requirements, and making the fleet truly self-healing by default. You will lead that next chapter
- As a Kubernetes Senior Engineer, you will build and operate the infrastructure layer that every engineer at Trade Republic depends on to deploy and scale their services with confidence
- Build for availability: Implement and improve the cluster topology and isolation model that gets mission-critical services to their availability targets - dedicated clusters per criticality tier, strict failure boundaries between platform and product workloads, and disaster recovery procedures you help test and prove
- Work across the networking fabric: Build and maintain the multi-account network the fleet runs on - VPC design, private endpoints, and cross-account connectivity - and contribute to the path toward cross-region and multi-cloud. Make sure services communicate reliably and securely wherever they run
- Push toward zero-touch fleet operations: Build the automation that turns cluster and addon management into self-healing workflows, freeing the team from repetitive operational toil so our time goes toward raising the platform's reliability and capabilities rather than keeping it running
- Strengthen the compute contract with product teams: Implement the resource policies, cluster profiles, and workload isolation boundaries that define how workloads run on the platform, and build the guardrails that prevent noisy-neighbours to compromise resiliency
- Own what you build end to end: Participate in the on-call rotation, taking operational ownership of the systems you build and run
- Contribute to the platform's direction: Bring strong technical input to the Kubernetes platform's evolution, take features from kickoff to delivery, and weigh infrastructure decisions against reliability, compliance, and cost
Our take
Trading has quickly become one of the biggest activities powering the global economy, with global equity trading amounting to over $100 trillion each year and growing, so it's a lucrative market that many want in on. Behind the rapid rise of its global growth are mobile brokerages, equally on the rise for their ease of use and increased access to information, they are powering the way for the future of the trading industry.
Trade Republic is a German-based mobile brokerage platform allowing users to buy and sell stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as other financial instruments all from their smartphones. As the platform operates exclusively through a mobile app, Trade Republic is making it easier than ever for a wider audience to get into trading and because of this, along with its low fees, the app has quickly become a popular choice for those looking to invest.
Since the company launched to the market in 2019, it has raised a significant amount of funding, amounting to over $1bn, and welcomes over one million users to its app, indicating the company's growth and reputation. Going forward, the company is focused on further expanding its offerings to more European countries and recently announced a step in this direction, having launched in Ireland.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$286.6m
SERIES C
May 2021
$750m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Christian Hecker
(Co-Founder)Experienced in Investment Banking having previously worked for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Marco Cancellieri
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as an iOS Engineer at Hubert Burda Media.
Thomas Pischke
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a Masters's degree in Physics, with a special focus on quantum computing.
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