Staff Engineer - Manufacturing Systems & Reliability (f/m/d)

About the Role

You will be part of a highly collaborative product team working at the core of our manufacturing facility, transforming digital models into physical elements at scale. Product Teams at GROPYUS own what they build, including the underlying infrastructure, build pipelines, automated testing, release and rollout management, monitoring, and support. You will be trusted to solve problems efficiently and effectively, building on top of a solid architecture and operational foundation, and will be encouraged to seek out under-attended topics and assume responsibility for them both within your product area and across product areas.

As a Staff Engineer, you have an impact across multiple teams within your product area. Staff Engineers effectively collaborate with other Staff Engineers and foster a culture of regular exchange and cooperation. Their ability to communicate effectively and take initiative ensures that they not only contribute to the technical success of projects, but also help drive overall growth and innovation within the company by sharing both best practices and failures, and learning from them. With your focus on and experience in SRE / operating large systems, you will drive and spearhead operational excellence within your product area.

What you'll be doing

As a Staff Engineer (f/m/d) on the Production Platform team, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and building the software at the core of our manufacturing and owning the integrations that connect it to physical machines and vendor systems
• Leading technical initiatives that ensure software systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally sound, especially in logistics- and manufacturing-heavy domains
• Working in a hybrid infrastructure environment (cloud and on-prem), managing complex software deployments at scale
• Bringing a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset to monitor, maintain, and improve software uptime, including reliable updates, latency, and efficiency
• Acting as a bridge between digital product delivery and physical logistics and manufacturing systems, including assessing vendors for integration fitness, owning buy-vs-build decisions, and negotiating API changes with machine and equipment vendors toward usable, maintainable interfaces
• Mentoring engineers across multiple teams and improving system-wide architecture, a maintainable and sound codebase, and operational excellence incl. incident handling
• Helping define, monitor, and evolve SLAs/SLOs as well as other important KPIs like e.g. OEE for critical systems

What you bring

• You are an experienced software engineer with a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering or operations
• You possess practical experience in all key areas of modern software development, including infrastructure, observability, testing, deployment pipelines incl. quality assurance, and scaling
• You've operated and supported large-scale software systems in cloud and non-cloud environments (on-premise)
• You've worked in companies with strong operational cultures, ideally in logistics or manufacturing — understanding the commercial impact of system downtime
• You're comfortable owning integrations with external systems, and can shape and negotiate vendor or machine APIs toward maintainable, scalable interfaces rather than working around whatever you're handed
• You have experience mentoring and guiding engineers at various levels
• You are proficient with most of the following technologies:
  • Kotlin / SpringBoot
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • PostgreSQL
  • TimeFold / Camunda / BPMN / Optimization
  • Python / Bash is a plus
  • OPC-UA / PLC / SPS is a plus
• You bring Cloud Operations experience
  • Experience with Azure is a bonus
• You're familiar with monitoring and alerting practices for production systems
• Experience with defining and working with SLAs/SLOs is a bonus
• You are willing to travel within Germany for in-person team events as well as visiting our manufacturing location

What we offer

• • Be part of something big: You’re here to make a change? Come on board. At GROPYUS, we are on a mission to re-think an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and sustainable, affordable living. 
  • It’s on you: We offer a tremendous amount of ownership and room to make a mark - at all our organization levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
  • Focus on results: You choose if you work from home, a park, or the office. Whether you start your day early, after your run, or pick up on work when your kids are in bed. What counts is your contribution and delivery.
  • Bring your uniqueness to the team: Innovation requires diversity of thought. Diversity in background, experience and thinking is crucial to create the best product for everyone. We actively seek diversity and strive to unlock each other’s full potential. We are very proud that people from all industries and all walks of life are joining our company – in addition to core areas such as construction, engineering, and start-ups, from stock-listed companies from across automotive e-Commerce, digital, sporting goods, and more. You will work in international teams with passionate colleagues. Inspire and be inspired.
  • Be an owner: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through stock options.