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Software Engineer (m/f/x) – Object Storage

Our Hetzner Cloud team consists of around 80 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 still young, it's already an impressive system: multiple clusters spanning dozens of petabytes of capacity, built on Ceph.

We're looking for a Software Engineer (m/f/x) who is enthusiastic about Ceph and keen to help us operate and scale our large Ceph setups – building the tools, services, and processes that keep them running smoothly and reliably.

This position includes an on-call rotation to maintain our services, which can be performed remotely within Germany.

The annual salary for this position is between €68,000 and €86,500 gross. The exact salary level will be determined based on professional experience and the scope of responsibilities.

Our stack in keywords: Ceph, Ansible, Prometheus, Thanos.

What you’ll do

  • You’ll design and implement a robust and resilient architecture for the object storage product

  • You’ll write, test, and run microservices using Go, gRPC, Kafka, and PostgreSQL

  • You’ll design, implement, and operate public HTTP APIs for our customers

  • You’ll build tooling for maintenance and set up monitoring and observability

  • You’ll work closely with infrastructure engineers to find the best way to operate large storage clusters

Your profile

  • You have experience writing well-tested, production-grade Go code

  • You have experience designing and implementing event-driven microservices

  • You feel comfortable working with Linux systems and Kubernetes

  • You are reliable, self-motivated and open-minded

  • Bonus: Familiarity with the S3 API and storage systems such as Ceph

  • You are business fluent in English, German is a plus

What you are working on

Our product

hetzner.com/cloud

Our API

docs.hetzner.cloud

Open Source

github.com/hetznercloud

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.
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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.