System Architect

As a System Architect, you will play a key role in shaping our internal platform strategy, driving architectural excellence, and enabling engineering teams through modern cloud-native solutions.

• Define and evolve the architecture vision for cloud platforms and internal developer services running on AWS.

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of scalable, resilient, and highly available platform solutions.

• Drive platform reliability initiatives, ensuring operational excellence through architecture reviews, technical standards, and best practices.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand developer pain points and improve internal tooling and Developer Experience (DevEx).

• Guide the adoption and operation of containerised and serverless workloads using Amazon EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.

• Establish and continuously improve observability standards including monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and service reliability objectives.

• Partner closely with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure platform solutions meet security and regulatory requirements.

• Support multiple product engineering teams by providing architectural guidance, technical mentoring, and hands-on problem-solving.

• Drive operational excellence through incident reviews, resilience initiatives, and continuous improvement practices.

• Contribute to Agile delivery processes, including sprint planning, technical discovery, architectural reviews, and technical leadership activities.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related technical fields.

• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership, solution architecture, or tech lead role.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.

• Deep expertise with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), ECS, Docker, and AWS Lambda.

• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, secure, and resilient systems at scale.

• Strong understanding of observability practices, including monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, SLAs, and incident management.

• Hands-on experience with platforms such as Datadog or comparable observability solutions.

• Experience collaborating with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams in enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and translate it into actionable roadmaps.

• Experience conducting user research, stakeholder interviews, or developer feedback sessions to improve platform adoption and developer experience.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience working in Agile environments and leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
  
  

• Experience supporting multiple autonomous engineering teams in a complex enterprise organisation.

• Previous experience building or evolving Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).

• Strong understanding of Developer Experience (DevEx) principles and platform product management.

• Experience facilitating blameless post-mortems and implementing long-term reliability improvements.

• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or similar certifications.
  
  

• Flexible hybrid work model

• Open source software

• No top‑down hierarchy. We trust in your self‑organization

• Colleagues who are smart, driven, and collaborative

• An open‑minded and informal culture backed by a global brand

• Health insurance and life insurance

• Proactive self‑development through international trainings and conferences

• Brand Connection perks

• Much more cool stuff

• Screening Call with our recruiter

• Take home challenge (if applicable)

• Technical Interview

• Culture Interview

• Offer 

Mercedes-Benz.io develops software and technology for the digital platforms of Mercedes-Benz. Our main products are the Mercedes-Benz Website worldwide, the e-commerce platform, digital services and aftersales solutions.

We have a fantastic team with people from all over the world. We encourage frequent collaboration and pairing across disciplines. English is the main working language.

Mercedes-Benz.io is an equal opportunities employer. We believe that diverse experiences and a broad collective perspective lead to a better company culture and better products.

Please send your resumé in English and PDF.