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Cloud Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote, Remote (Germany)
Your Role

Do you also believe that education is the best way to transform our world for the better?

For our Product Development department, we’re looking for a Cloud Engineer. StudySmarter has been around for six years and is a profitable Munich-based education technology scale-up. We’re remote-first (but offer hybrid for those who prefer it), and we believe strongly in our culture of trust, collaboration, and transparency.

As a Cloud Engineer at StudySmarter, you’ll be working within the broader Engineering team. You’ll be the first hire in a newly forming team that will take over and expand responsibilities currently spread across other teams. You’ll collaborate closely with technical leaders across disciplines, backed by our VP of Engineering. You may be the first — but you won’t be alone.

You’ll be responsible for both cloud maintenance and development, particularly across our AWS-based infrastructure (provisioned via Terraform and managed through Kubernetes). But your role will go beyond just maintenance.

You might:

  • Collaborate with developers to evolve and optimize our software development platform lifecycle (SDPL).

  • Take the lead in enhancing our observability and logging infrastructure across services.

  • Help identify opportunities to incorporate modern AI tooling into DevOps workflows (for instance, using LLMs to improve deployment validation or automate internal documentation).

  • Work with product and infra teams to scale and harden our WordPress-based systems, especially around caching, CI/CD, and performance.

  • Contribute to our transition from monolith to SOA, helping manage orchestration, service deployment, and cross-service communication.

  • Implement or refine our strategies for handling DDOS attacks, bot mitigation, and other security challenges.

Of course, this kind of role includes on-call participation and occasional emergency response. We strive to make that fair, respectful, and well-supported.
What you need to succeed

We're looking for someone who resonates with the following:

  • Proven experience managing cloud environments (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes required)

  • Experience scaling and automating WordPress infrastructure

  • Familiarity with GitLab-based SDPLs and the initiative to improve them

  • Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, ideally with migration experience from monolith systems

  • A security-conscious mindset, with experience responding to bot abuse, rate-limiting, WAF tuning, or DDoS events

  • Curiosity about modern AI/LLM applications, ideally with hands-on experience using them to optimize engineering tasks

  • Appreciation of the scout rule: leave things better than you found them

  • A self-driven learning attitude and willingness to grow

Not sure you tick all the boxes? That’s okay — the last two points matter most to us. If you're motivated and thoughtful, we want to hear from you.

Our Tech Stack

We’re actively working with:

  • AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes

  • GitLab, Python/Django, PostgreSQL

  • Cloudflare, CDNs, and security tooling

  • LLM tooling (e.g., OpenAI API) to experiment with workflow enhancements

  • WordPress and performance-sensitive PHP environments

Why StudySmarter?

  • Have a lasting impact on education and the learning experience of millions

  • Become a key part of one of Germany’s most successful EdTech scale-ups

  • Build and shape your role and your team from the ground up

  • Work with autonomy in a remote-first environment (or hybrid, if you prefer)

  • Choose your own equipment — laptop, headphones, monitor, etc.

  • Regular team events, continuous training, and a culture of feedback

  • Competitive salary based on where you work and the possibility of equity participation

  • Office perks if you choose to come in — table tennis, snacks, PlayStation, etc.

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About us
At StudySmarter, we are building the world's leading education platform, making learning easier and more accessible for millions of students worldwide. As a fast-growing EdTech company, we’ve been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2024, App of the Day by Apple, and won several worldwide awards. As a company, we are pioneering with AI in Education and always work at the forefront of innovation.
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