Senior Platform Engineer, Synera
.NET / Docker
€74-116.5k
Connected engineering platform
Open for applications
Connected engineering platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
€74-116.5k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform the way engineers work and enable them to do more of what they love doing: being inventors, creating great solutions, and solving problems.
Role
Who you are
- You resonate with Synera's Core Values - they're central to how we work, and we'll explore them together in your first interview
- You have 5+ years of experience building backend software in C#/.NET
- You have a track record of decoupling backend logic from a UI or desktop layer — extracting services, removing hard dependencies, and making code run headless and under test
- You've containerized production applications with Docker (multi-stage builds, Linux images, image-size control) — beyond tutorial level
- You've built and owned CI/CD pipelines that teams rely on
- You've packaged software for environments the vendor doesn't control: on-prem or customer-hosted install, upgrade, configuration, and secrets management
- You work AI-native: you use AI tooling in your daily engineering and want to build agent-facing tooling for the platform
- You work autonomously and drive work to a finished, deployed state
- You're fluent in English at professional working proficiency
What the job involves
- Synera is the leading AI Agent Platform for Engineering — companies like BMW, Airbus, NASA, and Hyundai use it to build autonomous digital engineers that execute real work inside CAD, CAE, and PLM tools. Today the product runs as a Windows desktop application. We're building a server-hosted product customers can deploy on their own infrastructure, and you'll join the team that owns the transition end to end
- You'll be the first engineer on our new Platform team. That means extracting the .NET backend from its desktop dependencies, containerizing it with Docker, and standing up the CI/CD, install, upgrade, and licensing flows for on-prem deployment, as well as taking over auth tasks
- In parallel, you'll join our efforts to make the platform AI-native: building MCP servers, agent skills, and documentation written for AI agents — not just humans — to operate the platform
- As the work matures, you'll contribute to growing a small, senior team around it
- You'll report to Ben and work closely with Sven and the broader engineering org, including being part of the Chaotic Chimeras team in the beginning. This is real ownership: you drive work to a finished, deployed state and raise blockers early
- Monday: Daily standup with the Chimeras team, then a deep focus block untangling the backend from its desktop dependencies. Every other Monday you join the cross-team dev share to swap learnings with engineers from the other teams
- Tuesday: Heads-down getting a service running headless inside a multi-stage Docker image. On alternating Tuesdays the team runs an AI experimentation day — you point a new agent or tool at a real platform workflow and see what sticks
- Wednesday: Work on the CI/CD pipeline so images build, test, and publish on their own
- Thursday: Sprint review and planning. You demo the latest slice of the migration, scope the next one, then work on the on-prem install flow — upgrade, rollback, and licensing for a customer-run server
- Friday: Every other Friday afternoon is yours for upskilling — a conference talk, a new tool, or a book from your €2,000 development budget
- In 6 months: The backend runs headless in Docker across dev, test, and staging — fully lifted out of its desktop dependencies
- In 6 months: A first on-prem deployment is live in an internal or friendly-customer environment, and CI/CD builds, tests, and publishes images without anyone babysitting it
- In 6 months: The platform's first MCP server or agent skill is in use, with deployment docs written for AI agents to act on
- In 12 months: Customers install, upgrade, and roll back the on-prem server themselves — the migration is proven end to end at a real customer site
- In 12 months: The Platform team has grown to two or three engineers, and the standards and onboarding you wrote make them productive fast
- In 12 months: MCPs and agent skills cover the main deploy and operations workflows, and internal teams reach for them day to day
- In 12 months: Observability is live in production, not just planned. Telemetry gives real visibility into every deployed instance, so “is it healthy” is a dashboard, not a Slack message to you
- In 12 months: First steps are made towards a fully cloud-native infrastructure setup that could power a SaaS solution
- Synera is a place where everyone can grow. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day, and be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our R&D team
Our take
Synera, formally known as Elise, is a German-founded engineering software company that develops platforms and tools for manufacturing companies. Off the back of the company's ethos to help engineers do more of what they love, Synera automates processes and leverages low-code, open and integrated software to help companies as large as BMW and Hyundai get more done faster.
Off the back of its 2026 funding, Synera has been enhancing its platform, strengthening deployment capabilities, and working to expand its customer base into new market regions, such as France. The company already claims to save engineers up to 90 percent in time savings on ad hoc tasks, enough incentive for the auto and travel manufacturing industry to invest in it. Interestingly, the Alfred Wegener Group, which conducts research in the Arctic and the Antarctic, is a parent company of Synera, influencing its core motive of improving engineering efficiency for time-sensitive work.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2026
$40m
SERIES B
Sep 2022
$14.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $60.7m
Company benefits
- Powerful equipment - Synera empowers its team members with the equipment they need to do their best work.
- Company offsites - Synera is a remote/hybrid company - which is why it enjoys regrouping for two offsites per year.
- Company fitness & Jobrad - Healthy body, healthy mind. Synera enables its team members to keep up with their health!
- Development budget - Never stop learning: Synera wants its team members to grow and continuously learn new things!
- Team spirit - Synera enjoys spending time with each other and places a high value on functioning as a team - no siloes, no politics, and lots of laughs.
- Flexibility - As a remote/hybrid company, Synera offers all the flexibility of a modern company to attract exceptional talent.
Company HQ
Überseestadt, Bremen, Germany
Leadership
Daniel Siegel
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Previously Head of Application at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.
Moritz Maier
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Consultant at Umlaut Company, Software Developer at Recyclex and Head Of Research And Development at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.
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