THE OPPORTUNITY
At Tradebyte you work hand in hand with the biggest players in e-commerce – from hip fashion brands to big online shops. We offer you an open work structure and an incomparable team spirit. We believe that work and passion are compatible and for that we offer the appropriate surroundings. With continuous growth, we are looking for new colleagues who share our passion for work. Love what you do – do what you love. Become part of Tradebyte, an independent company within the Zalando Group!
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You’ll join a professional agile team helping to shape the future direction of TRADEBYTE’s global engineering platform.
Design, develop and maintain solutions that optimize our global engineering platform to maximize value for our users.
Push our global engineering platform to be reliable, robust, and state of the art.
Work with engineering teams to find the balance between operational excellence and new initiatives which bring value to our users.
Help with questions and inquiries around our global engineering platforms which includes our CI/CD tools, AWS landscape, and other systems.
Facilitate engineering teams in the adoption of DevOps practices and pushing a “you built it, you run it” culture.
Educate developers and engineers about the best practices in clean database design
Perform audits of existing databases, figure out possible improvements and ways to implement them efficiently
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Experienced (5 years) and highly collaborative engineer with a strong growth mindset.
Exceptional knowledge of MySQL (experience with PostgreSQL is a plus).
Fluency in at least one scripting language (preferably PHP or Python).
Experience working as a Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer within an agile organisation and demonstrated ability to use tools like AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Chef, and Terraform to build robust, scalable, and user-focused solutions.
Profound understanding of the DevOps practices and development productivity topics.
Knowledge of NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) is a plus
You take ownership of your work – from understanding the requirements, to implementation, testing, and maintenance.
You strive for continuous improvement, standards, and best practices.
Knowledge in any of the following areas is a plus: software development, quality assurance, or product management.
You speak English fluently. German skills would be appreciated, but are not required.
