[Hiring] DevOps / Platform Engineering Lead @MAIA

Role Description

MAIA is the AI platform built for industrial companies - where generic AI tools break down because the data is complex, the stakes are high, and precision actually matters. Our goal is to become the leading AI knowledge management platform for industrial companies in Europe.

You will be the first person who owns this area entirely. Your mission is to make MAIA's platform reliable, secure, auditable, and developer-friendly, at a stage where every decision you make has lasting impact.

• Take full ownership of our infrastructure and establish the standards that will govern how it grows - Hetzner first, AWS, GCP, and Azure for selected services.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and deployment workflows - improving rollout strategies, versioning, and rollback procedures.
• Build out and mature our observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Sentry, PostHog) so that problems surface before customers notice them.
• Implement and own our security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, TLS, vulnerability scanning, and patch management.
• Drive the technical controls required for our ISO 27001 certification and build the systems that produce auditable evidence continuously.

Qualifications

• Strong experience running production systems in a SaaS environment.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals, containers and reverse proxies and API gateways (e.g., Traefik, Kong).
• Strong security fundamentals: IAM and least privilege, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and patching.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and observability tooling (Grafana/Loki or similar).
• PostgreSQL operations basics: availability, backup and restore, performance awareness.
• Fluent in English. German is a plus.

Requirements

• Strong ownership mentality - you take responsibility end-to-end, without needing to be managed.
• People enjoy working with you - not just because of what you know, but because of how you interact with them.
• Pragmatic builder - you improve systems without adding unnecessary complexity, and you can defend why a simpler approach was the right call.
• AI is part of how you work - not just as a tool you use, but something you actively explore.
• You prioritize based on risk and business impact, not technical interest alone.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with ISO 27001 implementation, especially technical controls.
• Experience with NixOS.
• Experience with self-hosted Supabase and Postgres-based platforms.
• Experience with SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, and incident review culture.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud usage patterns (Hetzner, AWS, Azure, GCP).

Benefits

• You will be the single owner of platform engineering at a well-funded, fast-growing startup.
• Short decision-making paths, real ownership, and a team that trusts you to lead your area without being managed.
• Direct and lasting impact on product reliability, security posture, and company growth.
• Flexible working hours and fully remote.
• Access to a WellPass fitness membership for your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Competitive salary of 70,000 - 80,000 EUR and VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan) participation opportunities.
• We are a remote-first company and have been since day one.

Hiring timeline

• Aiming to have this role filled by May 2026.
• The process consists of three stages: an intro call (30min), a technical interview (90min), and a final conversation with leadership.
• We move quickly and will keep you informed at every step.