(Senior) DevOps & Backend Engineer (Go) (m/f/d)
Kinexon•2h ago
MunichHybridFull-timeMid Level3+ yrs exp
Top focus
Backend EngineerDevops Engineer
- ABOUT THE TEAM
- We are a dynamic, international team developing a UWB-based Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) that powers solutions for industrial applications. To achieve the precision and scalability required for modern IoT solutions, we build a full stack of software components, including firmware, backend
- frontend applications.
- Join our team to scale existing solutions and create innovative KINEXON products in close collaboration with colleagues from our software and hardware departments.
- YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
- For this opportunity, we are looking for a mid-level or senior engineer with a strong DevOps focus and solid backend development experience:
- Several years of experience in DevOps, cloud operations, and backend development
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS
- Experience maintaining staging and production environments, including deployments, monitoring, and operational reliability
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Good understanding of observability, alerting, troubleshooting, caching, messaging, and scalable backend services
- Very good English skills and the ability to collaborate in an international engineering environment
- YOUR TASKS
- As a DevOps and backend engineer in our agile RTLS team, you will:
- Maintain and improve our staging and production AWS/Kubernetes setup
- Support reliable deployments, configuration changes, monitoring, alerting, and day-to-day operations
- Help scale our AWS and Kubernetes setup as product and customer needs grow
- Investigate incidents, improve operational stability, and make the setup easier to run and maintain
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services where they connect closely with infrastructure, scalability, and product needs
- OUR TECH STACK
- Our stack combines cloud operations with backend service development. You should be comfortable working with technologies and concepts such as:
- DevOps and operations: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Reliability: deployments, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and cost-aware scaling
- Backend development: Go, APIs, Protobuf, Redis or comparable caching solutions, MQTT-compatible messaging, and distributed service design
- Technology evolution: introduce new technologies and modernize outdated tools where they improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, or cost efficiency
- Optional frontend: Vue.js, Node.js, or similar technologies
- YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THIS WITH US
- At KINEXON, you will meet people with a similar mindset who are passionate about innovative technologies and love to master new challenges in a team, as well as create great products.
- Become part of our team and enjoy the following benefits:
- #Freetime 30 days (DE) / 20 days (US) paid vacation to refuel your energy (for full-time employees)
- #WeCare – take your time off for the family (parental leave etc.)
- #WorkingHours – Early bird or night owl - you can choose your flexible work hours.
- #FlexibleLocation – we work with a hybrid and remote model.
- #OneTeam - We enjoy spending time together at regular team and company events.
- #OnTop - further benefits selected by you annually out of a range of benefits that we offer (mobility, sports, vacation budget, training budget and more)
- If you want to find out more about our benefits, you can look here and with a visit to Instagram wearekinexon you can get a look behind the scenes.
- ABOUT US
- KINEXON is a leader in Physical AI for Manufacturing & Sports, turning real-time location and motion data into actionable intelligence and automation. Our AI and IoT-driven platform supports a wide range of applications, from automated logistics and safety solutions in factories to live player tracking and performance analytics in sports. In sports, 80% of NBA teams rely on KINEXON technology, alongside FIFA and top European football teams and leagues. In manufacturing and logistics, we partner with blue chip companies including BMW, Siemens, Airbus, Continental
- MTU to drive measurable efficiency gains. Founded as a TU Munich spin-off, we are a team of ~250 people headquartered in Munich with a US office in Chicago - and we're hiring ambitious talent ready to shape the future of physical AI.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesDockerTerraformGitOpsCI/CDGoAPIsProtobufRedisMQTT