(LEAD) SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DBaaS IN STACKIT CLOUD (m/f/d)
Schwarz Group18 days ago
Sofia, BulgariaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, architecture, and integration of Valkey/Redis-compatible and SQL Server managed services into STACKIT Cloud.
- Automate deployment, replication, backup, patching, and self-service DBaaS operations through Go-based REST and gRPC APIs.
- Design highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable caching and database solutions and optimize configurations and capacity.
- Own services from implementation through Kubernetes orchestration, monitoring, incident analysis, and post-mortems.
- Guide the technical direction of the product, mentor team members, and promote engineering excellence and SRE practices.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed, scalable, highly available system architecture and design.
- Strong software engineering and backend API development experience, with a proven ability to control infrastructure.
- Willingness to learn and use Go, Kubernetes, and database internals.
- Experience with reliability, fault tolerance, monitoring, and observability ecosystems such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Fluent English communication skills for collaboration in an international team.
- Preferred: deep expertise in Valkey, Redis, or SQL Server architectures, clustering, high availability, and performance tuning.
- Preferred: experience with Kubernetes, containers, and Kubernetes Operators for database orchestration.
- Preferred: experience with Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure automation.
- Preferred: knowledge of data-in-transit and data-at-rest security and network isolation in cloud environments.
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About Schwarz Group
Schwarz Group is a German retail group that owns and operates the Lidl and Kaufland grocery chains, plus production and waste-management businesses (Schwarz Produktion and PreZero). Through its digital arm Schwarz Digits it builds and runs IT, cloud, data, and security services for its brands and external clients, and offers retail media solutions via Schwarz Media. Headquartered in Neckarsulm, it is privately held and active across Europe and beyond.