Full-time · Berlin-based SaaS Startup
About Us
We are a growing Potsdam (Germany)-based startup operating a distributed microservices platform used by 10+ customers across Europe. Our 10-person engineering team builds and operates a modern AWS-based SaaS solution. This role strengthens our cloud foundation to support customer growth, reliability, and developer productivity.
Role Overview
As a Senior AWS Cloud SaaS Solution Developer, you will play a key role in architecture, automation, and operations of our AWS environment.
You will work hands-on with IaC, serverless, networking, observability, and security, helping drive our cloud strategy in a pragmatic, startup-friendly way.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain AWS infrastructure for distributed microservices (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Athena, CloudWatch);
- Improve reliability, scalability, monitoring, and security across production systems;
- Review and evolve CDK modules, IaC testing, drift detection, and automation standards;
- Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline);
- Enhance observability: metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alarms, and runbooks;
- Develop IAM, secrets management, KMS, VPC design, and security best practices;
- Support other developers and define architectural standards;
- Contribute to SOC II / ISO 27001 certification processes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software/cloud engineering experience, including 3+ years with AWS in production;
- Strong expertise in AWS core services, CDK, ECS, CI/CD, observability, and networking;
- Experience with scripting using TypeScript;
- Strong communication skills and ownership mindset;
- Ability to work effectively in a small, collaborative team.
Nice to Have
- Startup experience;
- Experience with B2B enterprise cloud applications and integrations;
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer);
- Strong understanding of Node.js runtime and asynchronous programming;
- Experience with TypeScript ecosystem and frameworks (NestJS, Express, Fastify);
- Solid understanding of OOP principles;
- Experience with event-driven architecture;
- Cost optimization / FinOps experience.
What We Offer
- Well-funded, fast-growing SaaS company with international customers;
- Modern AWS cloud infrastructure with strong scalability and performance;
- High-impact role in a small, experienced engineering team;
- Opportunity to shape architecture as the product scales.