Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps (m/f/d)

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your DevOps engineering talent in the exciting MedTech domain that is changing the future of surgery? To join a company top ranked on Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For?

Do you want to work with amazingly talented high achievers who are willing to go above and beyond to make the products that change patients’ lives? To build a rewarding career with an innovative company?

Who We Want:

Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.

Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.

Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

Position Summary:

The Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps is responsible for defining, implementing, and optimizing DevOps, CI/CD, software configuration management, and release engineering practices across multiple product teams. This role provides strategic technical proficiency for software delivery, release management, infrastructure automation, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with quality and regulatory requirements applicable to medical device software development.

What You Will Do:

• Own, develop, and maintain the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) infrastructure and pipeline independently for system and application software associated with embedded devices, enabling rapid and reliable delivery of release-ready software packages.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, quality assurance, product management, and infrastructure teams, to understand their requirements, provide guidance, and troubleshoot issues to deliver high-quality software.

• Monitor and improve the performance and reliability of CI/CD infrastructure and development environment through proactive monitoring, performance testing, and optimization.

• Stay updated with the best practices for software development and the latest trends, tools, and technologies in software engineering and DevOps practices, and evaluate their suitability for the organization.

• Build shippable software packages in accordance with quality management system procedures. Ensure each package is reproducible and ready for release. Provide comprehensive documentation, including required protocols and supporting materials.

What You Will Need:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering / Computer Science or related discipline & 6+ years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• Strong knowledge of Linux-based OS. Experience in Python, Shell scripting, and tools in CI/CD, build, static analysis, and software product security.

• Knowledge of containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the following tools is a plus:

  • CI/CD: Perforce, Jenkins, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory

  • Build: Make, Qbs

  • Containerization: Docker

  • Static Analysis: SonarCloud, Clang-Tidy

  • Application Security: Black Duck

  • Engineering Management Platform: Jama

  • Code Coverage: Bullseye

• Experience in C/C++, CMake, Kubernetes, and Grafana.

• Experience implementing DevOps practices in software product development for medical devices or other regulated environments.

Germany Pay Ranges:

• Freiburg/Stetten 39Std: €5.917 - €9.895 EUR Monthly

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.

Travel Percentage: 10%