Senior Software Engineer - Platform (d/f/m)

Why Scout24?
Scout24 is home of ImmoScout24, Germany’s #1 for real estate. With ImmoScout24 we have been revolutionizing the real estate market in Germany and Austria for more than 25 years. Our goal is to build a digital ecosystem that brings homeowners, seekers, and agents together. Finding the right home and property is one of the most important decisions in life. So is your career! #WorkingatScout24 means being part of a diverse and inclusive team of around 1100 colleagues and 58 nationalities. We embrace difference and celebrate individuality. By encouraging open mindedness and authenticity we enable a true learning culture and prepare the ground for personal development. Mistakes are a chance to grow and to innovate. Together we act proactively, strive for improvement, and take responsibility. We talk about success and challenge while treating each other with respect because we are #oneteam .

If this sounds interesting to you, we would love to see you joining us! Even if you may not tick all the boxes of the job requirements, we are happy to hear about the value you can add to the team. Grow with us!. Welcome home!

Aside from our people and company culture we are offering awesome benefits that make Scout24 a great place to work!  

• Compensation: A competitive salary package and a bonus on top.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work model with three days of on-site work per week in the office, and you can organize the remaining days as you wish. We offer you 30 days of vacation per year.
• Work from abroad: We offer you the possibility to work from abroad for 10 days per year, subject to the business requirements of the company and team.
• Relocation: Our relocation agency supports you with your visa process and an attractive relocation package.
• Use our products: As an employee you can take advantage of our plus membership for tenants on ImmoScout24 to find a new place to live.
• Development: Dedicated learning time per month, online courses on our ScoutAcademy, regular book challenges, structured feedback, “Lunch & Learn”-Events and individual career paths to push your career to the next level.   
• Have kids? We'll support you with a professional family service, which helps you to find a childcare center or offers emergency childcare.  
• Furry feel good manager : Bring your dog to work (upon approval, as we prioritise the well-being of our employees and ensure that our dog policy is considerate of allergic individuals and prevents overcrowding on each office floor).
• Mobility: We subsidize public transport or Job Bikes.
• Commitment to sustainability and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) : We have clear environmental and climate protection goals and are involved in social activities and charitable organizations throughout the year. We live the diversity. Our theme weeks on diversity, mental well-being, and other social issues give us time and space to develop ourselves on DEI and sustainability.
• Pension scheme : We offer a company pension scheme and support your own contribution with an attractive subsidy.
• Most innovative office: Our office is barrier-free and in the heart of Berlin right at the central station. It was awarded for the most innovative office concept. We have an own gym with regular courses, napping room, rooftop terrace, organic coffee, cafeteria, 100% green electricity and a massage therapist that comes in once a week.
• Health: Life Situation Coaching, regular health check ups
• We are a tech company: We work with the latest technical tools and hardware. 

As a Senior Platform Engineer in the Cloud Infrastructure in our Application Platform organization, you will shape, build and maintain a scalable, reliable and state-of-the-art compute platform for the Scout24 product development teams. Our platform supports various networking, persistence and compute requirements for all Scout24 applications and provides seamless capabilities and integrations for our internal developers. You will also get the opportunity to develop and integrate observability services that will help our engineers gain valuable insights into their applications.

Our motto is "You build it, you run it, you own it”. Your contribution will empower our teams to build products our customers love, enable them to make decisions based on data, and to run their applications with ease. As a senior member of the team, you lead by example by delivering outcomes over outputs. We are built on top of AWS (Amazon Web Services), as well as popular open-source solutions such as Kubernetes and AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit). Our observability platform includes tools such as DataDog, OpsGenie, as well as our own ELK stack.

You can learn more about our compute platform on Scout24’s tech blog:

How your role will look like:

• Develop state-of-the art products around cloud infrastructure, e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, networking and Infrastructure as Code
• Support companywide adoption of your team’s products and cloud technologies
• Solve challenging problems in a distributed system serving millions of customers
• Apply product thinking when developing the tools and services of your team
• Be a mentor and help your team mates to develop as professionals
• Share your knowledge in blog posts and at meetups and conferences

What you need to succeed:

• In-depth knowledge of cloud providers (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) and their services and APIs
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes microservices architectures and internal components
• Confident presentation and strong influence skills - able to adapt level and style to the audience
• Proficiency in modern programming languages - preferably Typescript, Javascript or Go
• Ability to create and consume Rest APIs
• Outcome over output-based mindset
• A start-small-learn-fast attitude
• Empathy for developers; a passion for internal platforms as a service to help organizations scale and maximize efficiency and simplicity
• Experience leveraging AI tools to drive problem-solving and productivity, maintaining effective human oversight and judgement.
• Experience with designing and operating a network architecture in the cloud including load-balancing (AWS ALBs), CDNs (AWS Cloudfront) and logically isolated virtual networks (AWS VPCs) (Bonus skills)
• Experience with AWS CDK, Python, Kotlin/Java (Bonus skills)
• Experience building/maintaining backstage.io based developer portals (Bonus skills)

We aim to further enhance the diversity of our company and support the professional development of people with disabilities. We have a disability representative who will assist you throughout the application process. If you require this support, please let us know in advance.