(Senior) IoT Cloud Engineer (m/f/d)

3 months ago

Remote, Germany +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

Own the cloud side of the IoT platform connecting residential IoT gateways and cloud services.
Operate and evolve the Kubernetes-based IoT cloud platform, including deployment, scaling, and hardening of connectivity and fleet services.
Develop and run the Eclipse Hono messaging backbone between gateways and cloud services.
Design and build fleet-management features covering gateway lifecycles from production line to field.
Integrate Mender to operate safe over-the-air rollouts across the device fleet.
Contribute to load and resilience testing for messaging infrastructure and distributed systems.
Build observability pipelines and convert metrics into monitors, alerts, and self-healing mechanisms.
Build data pipelines and BI models that provide fleet health and performance insights.
Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, IoT engineers, and cloud engineers to deliver scalable virtual power plant solutions.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience building and operating cloud or distributed backend systems in production.
Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally with GKE, and familiarity with modern cloud-native operations.
Strong understanding of MQTT and device-to-cloud messaging at scale, including back-pressure, QoS, and fan-out.
Experience designing and operating observability pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces in large-scale distributed systems.
Ability to write SQL, model data, and build dashboards using data and BI tooling.
Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and platform engineering practices.
A reliability and security mindset, strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, and the ability to guide architectural decisions.
Ability to work across embedded, hardware, data, and product teams and communicate clearly in English; German is a plus.
Bonus qualifications include production experience with Eclipse Hono or comparable IoT connectivity platforms, Mender or other large-scale OTA systems, SQLMesh, Looker or LookML, Google Cloud Platform, and load testing.

Remote work anywhere in Germany, with offices in Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich.
International, dynamic, and highly motivated team with access to core decision-makers.
Opportunity to contribute directly to the energy transition and climate technology.
Learning and collaboration with experienced colleagues.
EGYM Wellpass health and wellness benefits.
Futurebens benefits and discounts.
City bike and e-bike leasing.
Opportunity for full-time employment in a European scaleup.

1,001-5,000 employees