Staff Backend Engineer (gn) with Cloud Know-How (Dresden)

As a Staff Engineer on the NOVA Cloud team, you'll lead the architecture for our cloud platform, designing service boundaries, APIs, and plugin infrastructure. You'll own services end-to-end, bring structure to complex technical problems, and set the standard for how the team builds and operates cloud-native infrastructure. This is a role for a senior engineer who thinks beyond features and cares deeply about how systems fit together.

Activities

• Drive the architecture of our cloud platform with extensibility and scalability in mind
• Accelerate the NOVA platform by building NOVA Cloud - the orchestration layer for NOVA
• OS instances that extends the NOVA ecosystem with new capabilities
• Design integration patterns and APIs that allow external services and plugins to connect reliably
• Think through multi-tenancy, service boundaries, and ecosystem design from the ground up
• Implement backend services and own them end-to-end, from design through production
• Evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure
• Experience in developing helm charts, GitOps
• Define how services communicate, authenticate, and scale
• Bring structure to complex technical problems and take others along with you

Requirements

- In-depth experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems, not just building features within them - Strong architectural thinking: service boundaries, API design, extensibility patterns - Experience building platforms that other systems or teams integrate against - Kubernetes in real production environments - Cloud expertise - Authentication and authorization at the platform level (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC) - Message broker experience (NATS or similar) - Experience in TypeScript backend development Nice To Have: - Experience designing plugin or marketplace ecosystems - Production ownership experience - Mature CI/CD thinking

Team

Our NOVA Cloud team is building the management & orchestration layer that extends the NOVA ecosystem into the cloud, enables multi-tenancy, and opens the platform to third-party integrations.