ABOUT THE TEAM
We are a dynamic, international team developing a UWB-based Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) that powers solutions for industrial applications. To achieve the precision and scalability required for modern IoT solutions, we build a full stack of software components, including firmware, backend, and frontend applications.
Join our team to scale our existing infrastructure and backend, and help shape new KINEXON products, in close collaboration with colleagues from our software and hardware departments.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
For this opportunity, we are looking for a mid-level or senior engineer with a strong DevOps focus and solid backend development experience:
- 3+ years of experience across DevOps, cloud operations, and backend development
- Hands-on experience operating a Kubernetes cluster in AWS, including Helm charts and GitOps
- Experience running staging and production environments: deployments, monitoring, operational reliability and cost management
- Good understanding of observability, alerting, troubleshooting, caching, messaging, and scalable backend services
- A self-directed working style: you identify what needs improving or changing and drive it forward, rather than waiting for a ticket
- Experience mentoring other engineers and sharing knowledge within a team
- Very good English skills and the ability to collaborate in an international engineering environment
YOUR TASKS
As a DevOps and backend engineer in our agile RTLS team, you will:
- Build and evolve our staging and production AWS/Kubernetes setup, from day-to-day operations to larger migrations and scaling it as product and customer needs grow
- Own deployments, configuration, monitoring, and alerting during working hours, and extend them as new services and requirements come in — this isn't an on-call role; incident response outside working hours sits with our Customer Support team
- Investigate incidents and improve operational stability, including automating our monitoring and incident handling with AI-assisted triage and fixes
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies and services where they improve reliability, security, or cost
- When capacity allows or when an incident or scaling need points to a fix in the backend: design and implement improvements to our backend services (performance, scalability, security, and logging)
- Depending on your interests, contribute to our frontend where new backend capabilities need a user-facing counterpart
- Mentor colleagues in the team and help spread DevOps and backend knowledge across the team
OUR TECH STACK
Our stack combines cloud operations with backend service development. You should be comfortable working with technologies and concepts such as:
- DevOps and operations: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitOps-style workflows, and CI/CD processes
- Reliability: deployments, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and cost-aware scaling
- Backend development: Go, APIs, Protobuf, Redis or comparable caching solutions, MQTT-compatible messaging, and distributed service design
- Technology evolution: introduce new technologies and modernize outdated tools where they improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, or cost efficiency
- Optional frontend: Vue.js, Node.js, or similar technologies
YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THIS WITH US
At KINEXON, you will meet people with a similar mindset who are passionate about innovative technologies and love to master new challenges in a team, as well as create great products.
Become part of our team and enjoy the following benefits:
- #Freetime 30 days (DE) / 20 days (US) paid vacation to refuel your energy (for full-time employees)
- #WeCare – take your time off for the family (parental leave etc.)
- #WorkingHours – Early bird or night owl - you can choose your flexible work hours.
- #FlexibleLocation – we work with a hybrid and remote model.
- #OneTeam - We enjoy spending time together at regular team and company events.
- #OnTop - further benefits selected by you annually out of a range of benefits that we offer (mobility, sports, vacation budget, training budget and more)
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ABOUT US
KINEXON is a leader in Physical AI for Manufacturing & Sports, turning real-time location and motion data into actionable intelligence and automation. Our AI and IoT-driven platform supports a wide range of applications, from automated logistics and safety solutions in factories to live player tracking and performance analytics in sports. In sports, 80% of NBA teams rely on KINEXON technology, alongside FIFA and top European football teams and leagues. In manufacturing and logistics, we partner with blue chip companies including BMW, Siemens, Airbus, Continental, and MTU to drive measurable efficiency gains. Founded as a TU Munich spin-off, we are a team of ~250 people headquartered in Munich with a US office in Chicago - and we're hiring ambitious talent ready to shape the future of physical AI.