Staff Platform Engineer, Personio
Developer Experience
$205-235k
Plus equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
All-in-one HR platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
All-in-one HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$205-235k
Plus equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Personio is an all-in-one HR platform that helps organizations unlock the power of people
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools or distributed systems. You understand the needs of software engineers working in product teams, you’ve been in their shoes, and can empathize with them. You want to help your fellow engineers to achieve maximum efficiency
- You have 5+ years of experience working with JVM based codebases, such as Kotlin or Java (Spring Boot services). In particular you’re comfortable with the intricacies of their build ecosystems (build tools, tasks, runners, etc.)
- You have leadership experience and can act as a technical mentor and role model to other engineers. Ideally, leading pair and mob programming sessions, as well as setting up and running technical brainstorming and solution design sessions
- You can provide a technical strategic perspective to a group of other leaders within the tribe, including engineering managers
- You have a deep understanding and an interest for DevOps tools and technologies such as: Kubernetes, AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate etc.), Gitlab, DataDog, Sentry, Projen, Backstage, Docker and in particular progress delivery automation (CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, canary deployments, service mesh)
- You’re comfortable designing, building, documenting and distributing robust and delightful solutions in the form of services, CLI tools, scripts & plugins for developers
- You’re interested in development processes and practices (merge requests, approvals, trunk-based vs branch-based development, etc), and are eager to optimize and automate them
- You want to help multiple teams to build developer-facing tools and services, and you like writing great technical documentation and useful tutorials
- You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define your engineering design decisions as well as measuring the impact of your work
- You have an excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)
- We are experiencing rapid growth and are “building our plane while flying it” so bring your agile mindset to the table!
- You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
- Finally, you have a good sense of humour. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes, and bring your good vibes!
- Personio is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles
What the job involves
- This role resides within our Technology Platform domain (TPF). TPF are responsible for ensuring our application adheres to the highest technical standards, and ensuring our engineers have the tools and infrastructure to achieve this
- We measure engineering excellence through core metrics of software development delivery. We use these metrics to drive initiatives that enable our peer engineering teams to build, test, deploy, monitor and operate Personio to the highest industry standards
- Within TPF sits our Developer Experience (DX) tribe, which comprises multiple teams. Collectively within DX we enable other engineers to build, test and deploy code quickly, easily and reliably on their own
- We focus on maximizing engineering efficiency, by developing and distributing robust and practical development tools, building scalable DevOps processes, and advocating for software development best practices
- As a member of DX your focus will be on building tooling solutions which reduce the complexity and risk of developing, deploying and releasing software
- The DX Platform Engineer is a high-impact, cross-functional role at the heart of our engineering organization
- The tribe supports our internal engineering teams throughout the complete development lifecycle of Personio, using a unique mix of developer and SRE skill sets to enable our product engineers to take advantage of everything the platform provides while also minimizing the cognitive load required to do so
- You will work across multiple teams and backlogs within the DX space, helping to define the tribe's long term technical strategy and provide expert technical consultation to engineers embedded within teams
- You will research, engineer and experiment with new ways to improve the developer experience and DevOps practices to provide product teams with the capability to deploy on demand while also limiting any risk to the stability of production
- Your scope will include everything from how software components are built, tested, deployed, released and monitored across all environments, from the local machine straight through to our production clusters
- You will foster relationships and work closely with product teams to support them through architecture and infrastructure related migrations. Helping them understand their challenges and propose result-oriented solutions to improve their productivity
- You will act as a technical leader across the tribe and help improve the tribe’s engineering culture. Helping to improve the tribe's technical and operational excellence in cohesive ways
- When required, you can lead temporary task forces of engineers from across multiple teams to deliver fast proof-of-concepts
- You will use your existing experience to help drive the platform forward with new ideas and strategies that help maintain the quality, reliability, security, performance and cost effectiveness of the product and platform
- You will partner with multiple engineering managers, keeping them up to date and informed with technical details across multiple projects. Helping to ensure the tribe is delivering results in an iterative fashion that is driven by impact and promotes a culture of experimentation and learning
Our take
Personio was set up to automate and simplify HR tasks with a single software. This means reducing admin and accelerating efficiency with data and processes seamlessly integrating with each other.
What sets Personio apart from its competitors is the fact that its solution covers all the core HR processes that are key to every company’s success and can be performed in one place. This gives HR professionals the time and energy to focus on more strategic topics like talent development and employer branding. Personio has over 10,000 customers, among which are 1.5 million employees using its software.
With substantial funding from multiple investors, Personio is focused on growing the tools it offers as well as expanding into what they describe as “people workflow automation". With 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses still stuck in the spreadsheet era, Personio will deliver even more value to businesses in years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$200m
Series E
Oct 2021
$270m
Series E
Total funding: $724.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- Annual personal development budget for you to invest in your development via professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more
- Come together with regular company and team events, like our annual All Company Culture week and local year-end celebrations
- Choose between multiple sustainable transportation options, like a subsidised bike lease or monthly transit ticket
- Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, including a Personio contribution
- 2 Impact Days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society – one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative
- Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly hybrid setup. Spend roughly half your time in the office and half remote
- Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations - We anticipate, prioritize, and solve for the needs of our customers
- Deliver Exceptional Results - We dream big and move with urgency to make great things happen
- Elevate One Another - We work together as trusted partners to amplify our collective impact
- Care to Challenge - We care personally and challenge directly to unlock our full potential
- Ignite Positive Momentum - We embrace the challenge with a positive mindset and celebrate our wins together
Company HQ
Old Town, Munich, BY
Articles
Leadership
Hanno Renner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Feedbackme in 2015 and is a member of the "Advisory Board of the Young Digital Economy".
Arseniy Vershinin
(Co-Founder )Also co-founded nuclino in 2015. Before then, was an iOS Developer at Freeletics and Empatika.
Roman Schumacher
(Co-Founder )Previously co-founded Feedbackme and is a member of Founders Pledge.
Ignaz Forstmeier
(Co-Founder)They're an advisor and investor for y42.
Jonas Rieke
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Diversity & Inclusion at Personio
Holly Smith (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Partner)
- Our Count Me In DEI survey is designed to measure our progress towards our DEI goals and identify gaps and improvement areas to inform our planning of future initiatives.
- Our main focus in 2023 has been supporting and uplifting women in tech. It’s something our Exec are really passionate about. Within this we have launched: our first 'Lift Mentorship Program' and Career Coaching for Women.
- Personio Parents: Starting in 2024, we’ll be launching a new initiative to support Personios in their careers and journey as a parent or caregiver.
- To find out more about Personio’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to ensure we are a company where everyone can embrace their uniqueness, visit our page https://www.personio.com/about-personio/diversity/
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