infrastructure
Posted Aug 14, 2025Field Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
at Unikraft
Berlin, GermanyRemote
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Optimization: Troubleshoot, refine, and ensure the performance and reliability of customer deployments.
- Build your Favorite Work Set up: A generous equipment budget to spend on anything you need to do your best work.
Requirements
- You’ll work on real-world problems, engage deeply with customers, and operate across diverse environments and languages, from Rust and Go to Python and C++.
- Container & Linux Expertise: Leverage your hands-on knowledge of Docker, Dockerfiles, and Linux-based systems to support and scale infrastructure.
- experience with containers (Docker, Dockerfiles), Linux, and CI/CD design.
- Versatile Engineer: Ability to learn fast and adapt to different runtimes, build systems, and environments (Rust, Node, Go, Python, C++, etc.).
- Extra Points: Familiarity with OCI standards, QEMU/KVM, Firecracker, Cloud-Hypervisor, and direct customer-facing experience.
Benefits
- The Standard Stuff: Competitive Salary, 6 weeks vacation, development opportunities.
Additional details
- The cloud is broken: It's wasteful, slow, awfully expensive, and burdened with legacy tech that wasn't built for today's workloads.
- At Unikraft we're building a generational, truly millisecond-native, extremely scalable cloud platform that provides exponentially higher efficiency.
- Are you bored with your current job? Want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the cloud to the absolute limit?
- Our team consists of some of the best systems, performance, and security geeks out there, and is backed by top investors with category leaders as our customers.
- We believe a focused team of exceptional people, moving fast with conviction, can rebuild the cloud from first principles and make extreme efficiency (eg, millions of users on a few servers) available to everyone. What You’ll Own
- You’ll be exposed to the full lifecycle of customer adoption , and your work will directly influence product direction and success.
- Customer Deployments: Work directly with clients to onboard and migrate complex infrastructure onto Unikraft Cloud.
- Technical Partner: Act as a trusted advisor, helping clients navigate the intricacies of next-gen cloud infra.
- Product Feedback Loop: Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering to incorporate customer feedback into our roadmap.
- Problem-Solver: Excellent debugging and optimization skills with a customer-focused mindset.