Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will build and operate the compute layer underpinning DeepL's products and research. This includes the Kubernetes control plane, node lifecycle, networking, storage, and core cluster services across hybrid infrastructure.

What you will do

• Take ownership of the reliability, capacity and cost efficiency of DeepL's compute infrastructure, CPU and GPU
• Shape the platform's architecture
• Design, build and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem infrastructure
• Drive the technical work of deepening the hybrid model
• Define infrastructure-as-code and platform standards
• Strengthen observability and security
• Mentor engineers across the infrastructure track
• Build consensus across engineering teams
• Lead incident response for hybrid infrastructure

Required qualifications

• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise
• Depth at scale in either public cloud or on-prem infrastructure
• Networking and Linux depth to debug from container through host to network edge
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or equivalent
• GitOps delivery with tooling such as ArgoCD
• Software engineering skills in at least one major language
• Track record of technical ownership spanning several teams
• Strong incident-management and reliability-engineering discipline

Nice to have

• AWS experience
• Bare-metal or data centre experience
• Go or Python preferred
• GPU infrastructure for training or inference at scale
• Distributed storage systems in production, such as Ceph
• Having served researchers or data scientists as platform customers
• Networking at BGP level in a hybrid or on-prem environment

Benefits

• Hybrid work, flexible hours
• Virtual Shares
• Regular in-person team events
• Monthly full-day hacking sessions
• 30 days of annual leave
• Access to mental health resources
• Competitive benefits tailored to location

About the company

DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. It has around 1,000 employees and serves over 200,000 business customers.