Senior DevOps Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

Job description

A little about us AI-native design: End-to-end workflows where a single prompt produces product shoots, social video, labels and full campaigns without switching tools Millions of users: Built a large user base since 2022, with a clear product bet on where design is heading next Diverse team: 120+ people from 30+ countries, building one product together Product-led: Engineers, product managers, and designers shape what Kittl becomes Strong backing: Over $45M raised from investors who've also backed Slack, Dropbox, and Figma Learn more: www.kittl.com/career 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 ac…