[Hiring] Python Software Engineer @Checkmk GmbH

Role Description

As part of one of our product development teams, you will work on the further development of our monitoring solution and contribute to the release of the next versions. You will:

• Work closely with different teams such as UX, QA, Security, Product Management, and other development teams.
• Use technologies and tools such as Python, Jenkins, Pylint, Gerrit, git, and Pytest to ensure that our platform stays up to date and provides a seamless experience for our customers.
• Work on the frontend with VueJS.
• Express a passion for improving software products.
• Participate in an agile team that works in 2-week sprints with dailies, retros, and planning sessions, continuously improving our development process.
• Bring in new ideas and approaches and collaborate on new features and improvements.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in backend development with Python.
• Good knowledge of Linux.
• Ideally, experience with VueJS or React and/or willingness to learn/work with VueJS/Frontend.
• Practical experience in AI-supported software development (especially using Claude Code to increase efficiency in the dev workflow).
• Business fluent in written and spoken English.

Benefits

• The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast-growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities.
• Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment.
• Workation: opportunity to work 6 weeks within the EU to extend your vacation.
• Access to over 9,000 sports and wellness offers from Wellpass.
• An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision-making within flat hierarchies.
• A unique corporate culture emphasizing equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• A wide range of education and training opportunities.
• Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central districts of Munich.
• An attractive salary.
• Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party, and more) in a familiar atmosphere.

Company Description

We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts, and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably. Over the last years, we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US, and beyond. Our colleagues currently work from our Munich HQ as well as across Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, USA, UK, Singapore, and Malaysia.

We are a dynamic, fast-growing, and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us, you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.

With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them cope with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product, and your work helps to keep it that way!