Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

About Redcare Pharmacy:

As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy, collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values, join us and begin your #Redcareer today.

As Senior Platform Engineer (DevEx) (m/f/d) , you design, build, and evolve the Internal Developer Platform as a core engineering product. Your mission is to measurably improve developer experience, delivery speed, and operational reliability across the organization. You work at the intersection of platform engineering, software engineering, and systems design. You build opinionated, production-grade platform capabilities that remove friction from day-to-day engineering work, reduce cognitive load, and enable teams to ship safely and independently. You treat internal engineers as customers, but you optimize for overall system throughput, not individual convenience.

Job Description

About your tasks:

DevEx & Platform Ownership: 

• Design, implement, and maintain core components of the Internal Developer Platform, covering CI/CD, self-service, delivery pipelines, service templates, golden paths, developer tooling, internal APIs, observability integrations, and cloud/runtime abstractions. Build and evolve opinionated golden paths that cover the majority of use cases, making explicit trade-offs between flexibility, standardization, and long-term maintainability.
• Translate platform product vision and roadmap into concrete, high-quality engineering solutions with strong defaults and clear boundaries.
• Own platform defaults end-to-end. All defaults must be secure, observable, compliant, cost-aware, and production-ready without requiring additional work from consuming teams.
• Be accountable for platform adoption from an engineering perspective, including usability, documentation quality, migration support, and deprecations.

DevOps & Platform Engineering:

• Contribute to platform-level architectural decisions that optimize overall system throughput, even when this conflicts with local team preferences.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for reliability, observability, security, and compliance by default.

Execution & Continuous Improvement:

• Continuously improve developer workflows by reducing lead time, failure rates, onboarding effort, and cognitive load, guided by DevEx and flow metrics.
• Challenge existing tooling, patterns, and assumptions when they no longer serve the needs of scale, safety, or developer productivity.
• Act as a force multiplier for engineering teams by abstracting complexity while preserving transparency and debuggability.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Partner closely with Product Managers, SREs, Security, and Product Engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with delivery, reliability, and compliance needs.
• Influence engineering teams through clear technical direction, strong defaults, and well-reasoned trade-offs rather than mandates.

Qualifications

About you:

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer or Platform Engineer working on internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems in production environments.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of security principles in modern software delivery, including identity and access management, least-privilege design, secrets management, and secure defaults.
• Strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including:
  • CI/CD and trunk-based development
  • Cloud-native architectures and container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code, internal platforms, and self-service models
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with production experience in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. Go, Python, TypeScript).
• Systems thinker with the ability to anticipate second- and third-order effects of infrastructure and platform decisions.
• Comfortable working with senior engineers and security stakeholders without hiding behind process.
• Pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset: you optimize for adoption, reliability, security, and flow; not theoretical elegance.

Additional Information

About your benefits:

In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)

Remote work policy:

Our offices are open, but you are free to work from home, from any location in Germany. It is entirely up to you if you want to pop into the office every now and again, or if you work from home all the time. At the same time, we value relationship between all members of the area and therefore we have regular team and area anchor days on which every team member is asked to come to the office.