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Team Lead (m/f/x) - Object Storage

Our Hetzner Cloud team consists of around 70 employees and works both remotely across Germany and from our office in Munich (Unterföhring).

Object Storage is the newest addition to Hetzner's portfolio of storage products. Although it is a relatively new product, it is already an impressive storage system, consisting of multiple clusters with dozens of petabytes of capacity.

Our stack in keywords: Ceph, C, C++, Go, Python and Linux.

Your tasks

  • You will manage and mentor a team of 6+ engineers, providing feedback, conducting bi-annual performance reviews, and supporting their career development
  • You will expand your team by hiring top talent and managing the on-call rotation to maintain operational excellence
  • You will collaborate with our Product Manager to shape the future of Object Storage, ensuring a strategic and customer-focused approach
  • You will work closely with the hardware and data centre teams to plan capacity and future scalability
  • You will enhance availability, stability, and performance by reviewing incidents, writing postmortems, and identifying key areas for improvement
  • You will actively contribute to both software and infrastructure, setting the technical direction and supporting your team in execution

Your profile

  • You are equally passionate about leading people and driving technical excellence
  • You have experience managing (small) teams with a proven ability to support their growth
  • You know that strong communication is key to running successful projects and leading effective teams
  • You have a product mindset, always keeping the customer at the centre of your decisions
  • You are fluent in both spoken and written German and English, with professional proficiency

Benefits

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Pick your kit

MAC, PC or Linux — whatever you prefer, we provide it for you.
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Flat hierarchies

You will work with a casual team in a friendly and pleasant working environment.
Uhr

Flexibility

Whether it's working from home or flexible working hours outside of our core working hours — your needs matter.
Abschlusskappe

Further training

We offer a budget of EUR 2,500 per employee per year to invest in your personal development.
Kreditkarte

HelloBonnie

In addition to an attractive compensation, you will get a prepaid credit card that we will top up for you monthly with EUR 50.
Partytüte

Events

We highly value and promote in-person meetings such as our offsite, our Christmas party, Oktoberfest, and events on other occasions.
Kurzhantel

EGYM

We want to invest in the health of our employees and partner with EGYM Wellpass to provide an attractive offer for a wide range of fitness options all across Germany.
Kinderwagen

Childcare subsidy

We pay part of the childcare costs until your child goes to school.
Laptop am Strand

Workation

You want to combine work and vacation? We want to make this possible for you!
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Company holidays

With us, 24 December and 31 December are annual holidays. This means, you don’t need to sacrifice your own vacation days.
Fahrrad

Bikeleasing

Exercise keeps us fit. For this reason, you can lease a bicycle of your choice through us.
Gesprächsblase mit Stern

Recommend a friend Bonus

Our way to thank you if you recommended a new colleague to us.
Flasche und Apfel

All-round care

For those who love working in the office: Free drinks and snacks, air-conditioned office with height-adjustable desks, charging station for electric cars and much more.