Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d)

Job description

Mission Founded in 2024 by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, Integral set out to redefine how accounting, taxation and payroll works for SMEs in Europe, starting with Germany. The company is backed by General Catalyst, Cherry Ventures, Puzzle Ventures and entrepreneurs across Europe. As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help us build trustworthy product experiences that solve real customer problems on payroll, tax and accounting. Own outcomes, not just output, balancing speed and craftsmanship to deliver value that compounds using state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. What you'll do Design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability and security Own our CI/CD pipelines end-to-end — from design to rollout and continuous improvement Drive infrastructure-as-code practices across the engineering team Collaborate closely with product and AI engineers to enable fast, safe and frequent deployments Monitor system performance, lead incident response and run post-mortems to keep raising the bar Instrument infrastructure with observability tooling — logs, metrics, traces — and act on what you see Ensure security and compliance standards are met across all environments Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investments Drive simplicity: reduce complexity for developers and keep systems easy to reason about High ownership: you'll have a real say in how we build and scale our infrastructure Your decisions directly impact the reliability and performance of a platform used by thousands of SMEs across Europe Tight feedback loops with engineers, founders and stakeholders Pragmatic pace: ship, learn, iterate Core responsibilities Experience & Mindset 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure roles, ideally at a startup or high-growth company Proven track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end and driving measurable impact Comfortable with ambiguity: you take initiative, manage your own time, and leave systems and teams better than you found them You turn complexity into simplicity, make good decisions reversible, and build plans others can follow Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot or Claude — and able to audit and validate AI-generated code Experience in fast-scaling environments is a strong plus German language skills are a strong plus Technical Skills Strong hands-on experie…