Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer – AI Infrastructure (m/w/d)

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Leipzig, Germany
Experience
Senior · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

As the first dedicated DevOps person, you will own the infrastructure and operations of the MAIA AI platform and develop it further for the next growth stage, working closely with the engineering team.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Hybrid · Leipzig, Germany
Languages
German – fluent, English – fluent
Pay
EUR 80,000 – 90,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Operate self-administered Linux systems on Hetzner dedicated servers and cloud VMs, and connect AWS, Azure and GCP services, especially for AI services.
  • Make changes safe and reproducible with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and proven rollbacks.
  • Own PostgreSQL performance, connection pooling and capacity, and ensure reliable data recovery with tested backups and restores.
  • Develop the self-operated observability stack, connect metrics, logs and traces, and establish alerting that leads to concrete actions.
  • Implement least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning and patch management, and automate auditable evidence for the ISO 27001 effort.

What we're looking for

  • Have operated production SaaS systems on self-administered Linux servers; experience only with fully managed cloud services is not enough.
  • Use Docker and Docker Compose confidently in production, as well as reverse proxies or API gateways such as Traefik or Kong.
  • Manage infrastructure with Terraform, NixOS or comparable tools and build CI/CD with GitHub Actions or similar systems.
  • Have set up and tested PostgreSQL backups and restores yourself and are familiar with performance analysis and connection pooling.
  • Have operated an observability stack yourself, for example with Grafana, Loki and Prometheus.
  • Implement security in daily work, from permissions and secrets to security updates.
  • Know the basics of RAG systems and their typical failure sources in operation, and can assess LLM serving trade-offs between latency, throughput, cost and operational effort.
  • Drive topics independently, investigate unknown systems until understood, and prioritize by risk and impact.
  • Use coding agents daily, including for infrastructure, and critically review their results before anything goes to production.
  • Stay calm and clear during incidents, explain technical contexts understandably to non-technical people, and speak very confident German and English.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Hetzner is a plus.

Your team

Engineering

The engineering team critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes, especially in agentic development.

Benefits

Work in the office at least three days a week, with the remaining days wherever you like, and choose your own start time.

  • Access to current frontier models and coding agents.
  • Support for further training that fits your professional development.
  • Access to a Wellpass membership.
  • Virtual participation via the company's VSOP.
  • Cook together almost every day.

How to get hired

  1. 1No cover letter needed; send your CV and answer in your own words why you want to help shape MAIA.
  2. 2If it fits, a 30-minute get-to-know-you, a 90-minute technical interview and a final conversation with management follow.
  3. 3You usually hear back within two working days after each step, with the goal of a decision in around three weeks.

Apply

About MAIA

MAIA is an AI platform for companies.

With MAIA, teams search their internal data and anchor agents deeply in their processes.

Mission

We accompany companies in using AI not just in individual departments but across the whole company.

Key facts

  • 2021
  • Leipzig
  • MAIA has been developed in Leipzig since 2021.
  • Numerous industrial companies have been working intensively with MAIA for years.
  • After a successful financing round in 2026, MAIA is now being brought to a broader market.
  • The models used are operated in the EU.

What they value

  • We share the goal of building a really good product.
  • Everyone takes responsibility for their own topic.
  • Paths are short and decisions are made quickly.