Senior Platform Engineer (d/f/m)

1) Why us?

We believe that AI has the potential to revolutionize how cancer and other complex diseases are diagnosed and treated. We also believe that AI is a tool, not an identity – without access to high quality data and a scientifically rigorous, transparent approach to model development, AI is just a buzzword. That’s where we come in.

Aignostics is a spin-off from one of Europe's largest and most prestigious university hospitals (Charité), with employees in Berlin and New York. We have received over $50M in funding from leading investors and are a growing team of over 100 interdisciplinary professionals. We work with academic partners as well as leading global life sciences companies.

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Aignostics, you work hand in hand with our teams and external collaborators in academia and industry to push the state of the art for digital pathology. Together with your colleagues you will take care of a variety of external and internal services. You'll be responsible for conceptualizing, leading, and owning projects that enhance scalability for data-intensive AI training, improve system observability, and elevate the daily experience of our application developers.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fun, diverse, and growing team of 100+ data scientists, software developers, biologists, and pathologists to shape the next generation of cancer treatments. You will be part of a driven community that works in an agile, supportive and interdisciplinary research environment where your results make a difference to patients. In our established startup you have the opportunity to grow personally and technically, take responsibility and benefit from a dynamic work environment.

At Aignostics, we believe that fighting cancer is a job for people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures. We value and celebrate diversity and inclusion and are committed to offering equal employment and promotion opportunities for all applicants and employees. Applicants will be considered regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, etc. We thrive through collaboration and believe the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

2) Where your expertise is needed

• Introduce, implement and own architectural solutions of our Kubernetes clusters, internal services, and cloud-based infrastructure to improve our developer’s experience.

• Identify & Automate workflows and processes leveraging from event driven pipelines like Gitlab CICD or Argo Workflows

• Introduce and drive the security of our applications and data by implementing state of the art security concepts in Kubernetes and cloud environments

• Work closely with the engineering and data science teams to bring our products and AI model training to its excellence.

• Propose and drive the adoption of best practices in infrastructure management, scalability, and security.

3) What we are looking for

• Proven experience: 5+ years in platform engineering, with a proven track record in managing complex, cloud-native infrastructure .

• Technical expert: work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Cloud Environments, with a deep understanding of CI/CD processes and tools.

• Excellent coder: automate with strong programming and scripting abilities, preferably in Go/Python and bash .

• Network architect: get our services flying by leveraging technologies like Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, Reverse Proxies and Firewalls.

• Outstanding communicator : ability to explain complex technical concepts, drive decisions, and collaborate across teams (fluent in English, German is a plus)

• Self-driven learner : stays current with technology trends, evaluates new solutions (including AI), and grows with our challenges

• Live the Devops Culture : Educating our developers on core principles, implementing collaborative processes, and providing the necessary tools and frameworks that enable them to do so

4) Ideally, you also

• Experienced Gitlab/Github: Keep our code safe and functional using Github Actions and Gitlab CICD

• Be on the watch: Worked with Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana (Loki/Tempo) monitoring stack

• Love security: You have practice in technologies for secret management, Kubernetes namespace isolation, vulnerability/container scanning, license verification.

• Like the GitOps approach: You already have experience with the Argo Project (ArgoCD, Argo Events & Workflows, Argo Rollouts)

• Be a platform provider: Knowledge in configuration management for platform selfservices like Backstage.

• Know the industry: Experience in the healthcare or AI industry is a plus, with a keen interest in contributing to the mission of fighting cancer through technology.

We are still keen to hear from you if you don't match all the above points! Our needs are diverse and growing, and you are encouraged to apply if you have a strong combination of these skills.

5) Our offer

• Join a purpose-driven start up: We are working collectively to fight cancer and improve patient outcomes. Come help us make a difference!

• Cutting-edge AI research and development, with involvement of Charité, TU Berlin and our other partners

• Work with a welcoming, diverse and highly international team of colleagues

• Opportunity to take responsibility and grow your role within the startup

• Expand your skills by benefitting from our Learning & Development yearly budget of 1,000€ (plus 2 L&D days), language classes and internal development programs

• Mentoring program, you’ll learn from great experts

• Flexible working hours and teleworking policy

• Enjoy your well-deserved time off within our 30 paid vacations days per year

• We are family & pet friendly and support flexible parental leave options

• Pick a subsidized membership of your choice among public transport, sports and well-being

• Enjoy our social gatherings, lunches, and off-site events for a fun and inclusive work environment

• Optional company pension scheme

  Join us to make a difference!