Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer, SimScale
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Cloud-based 3D simulation
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Cloud-based 3D simulation
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the destination for designers across the globe, by providing a cloud-based simulation tool, educational hub, and collaborative community of innovators.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Software development experience: Your background is rooted in software development, and you moved into SRE from there. You write production-quality software in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or Java
- Strong systems foundation: You understand Linux internals and distributed systems well enough to debug complex production behavior
- Hands-on cloud and infrastructure experience: AWS (or GCP), declarative infrastructure (Terraform), gitops-workflow (ArgoCD) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Observability and reliability experience: You have worked with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, distributed tracing, monitoring, and meaningful SLOs/SLIs
- Production debugging depth: You can investigate complex failures, communicate clearly during incidents, and turn findings into durable improvements
- Security and compliance awareness: You understand how infrastructure decisions affect access control, auditability, disaster recovery, logging, and standards such as SOC 2
- Clear communication: You can explain trade-offs to engineering teams and help others adopt better platform practices without unnecessary friction
Desirable
- An open source portfolio or contributions
- Prior technical leadership experience, especially in infrastructure, reliability, or platform engineering
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to own and improve the cloud infrastructure behind SimScale's browser-based simulation platform. The role spans AWS and EKS, observability, disaster recovery, security and compliance controls, multi-region architecture, elastic GPU/HPC capacity, and internal developer tooling
- SimScale's engineering teams run workloads directly on AWS; you will build the standards, guardrails, and self-service tooling that let them do so safely, raising reliability and security without slowing engineering velocity
- You will join a small, tightly knit infrastructure team supporting 50+ engineers across the company. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role; people management is not required, but there is a genuine path toward tech-lead ownership as the team grows
- Evolve our Kubernetes platform: Evaluate and adopt technologies such as Kubernetes Gateway API and service mesh patterns, and coordinate platform evolution across 10+ engineering teams
- Take observability to the next level: Drive organization-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics, and help teams define meaningful SLOs
- Shape multi-region architecture and data residency: Support our move from an EU-centered footprint toward a global, multi-cloud architecture that satisfies disaster-recovery and data-residency requirements
- Own cloud cost and efficiency at scale: Keep petabyte-scale infrastructure cost-efficient, secure, and well-instrumented
- Improve tooling: Build self-service AWS account provisioning, guardrails and AI-assisted automations that help engineering teams manage infrastructure safely and efficiently at scale
Our take
Simulation and computer-aided engineering (CAE) software exists to help engineers in analysis tasks, by imitating real-life scenarios from mathematical formulae to enable optimisations and adjustments to be found prior to manufacture. However, though utility is high, CAE solutions can be difficult to implement, hard to scale, and require large investment in hardware and maintenance. SimScale provides a cloud-based simulation tool for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), to enable engineers to easily implement simulation CAE across R&D cycles.
SimScale, founded in 2012, began life as a consultancy, before bringing cloud computing to simulation. Its platform enables organisations of any size to make use of engineering simulations, by removing the large hardware costs that would normally make them economically inaccessible; and providing accurate end-to-end simulations that can be generated without experience in the technology. The company initially provided CFD services, used to solve structural problems, before expanding to include FEA, for fluid-flow problems, by a partnership with the firm Simerics.
With hundreds of thousands of users already on board, SimScale is making great progress towards its goal of making engineering simulation a standard tools across industries. And with funding, the company is ready to field its expansion into new sectors, adding even more powerful simulation capabilities to meet the evolving needs of engineers across the globe.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$28.8m
SERIES C
Jun 2021
$28.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $88.5m
Company benefits
- Mobile Working: Modern technology coupled with the widespread use of digital communication enables remote working. We embrace mobile working as it offers many possibilities for our employees!
- Flexible Working Hours: It doesn’t matter if you are an early bird or a night owl, at SimScale you have the freedom to plan your workday
- Competitive Health Benefits: Whilst working in a competitive and ambitious environment, it is just as important to take care of your health. At SimScale, we’ve got you covered!
- Learning and Development: With the right training in place, we offer our employees the opportunity to further develop their competencies and skill-sets, to ultimately become more successful and satisfied
- Discounted Gym Membership: We offer a gym membership with multiple locations to make it easier for our employees to invest in their health, wellbeing, and workout regularly!
- Child Care Contributions: In addition to flexible working hours, and home office possibilities to support family commitments, we also provide contributions for our mini SimScaler’s nursery or kindergarten childcare
- Retirement Plan: We are future-oriented, and take care of our employees! We provide employees with a retirement plan that will contribute towards a comfortable and secure future
- Tech Talks and Social Events: Whether it’s through tech talks, social events or other organized activities, we are not just working together, we like sharing, and enjoying each other’s company!
Company HQ
Schwanthalerhöhe, Munich, Germany
Leadership
David Heiny
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer at FluiDyna.
Vincenz Doelle
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously a Software Engineer and Consultant at CQSE. They also worked as a Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst at the International Management and Marketing Support and as a Software Engineer at IBM.
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