Senior Software Engineer – Internal Developer Experience

About the role

Aiven is building a new team focused on internal developer experience. As a Senior Software Engineer you will shape how engineers write, test and ship code across the company, influencing development environments, tooling and CI/CD pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize and solve concrete problems that affect engineering productivity.
• Own and continuously improve Aiven’s CI/CD pipelines.
• Build or adopt developer tooling and drive its adoption across teams.
• Define sensible defaults for project templates, testing conventions and documentation.
• Help shape safe collaboration between humans and AI agents.

Required profile

• Several years of professional software engineering experience delivering production software.
• Strong ownership instinct – you fix flaky builds, write onboarding scripts and clean up pipelines without being asked.
• Hands‑on experience with Linux, containers and Infrastructure as Code.
• Fluent written and verbal English.

Required skills

• Linux
• Containers
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipeline development
• Shell scripting
• Cloud infrastructure management
• Observability tooling (nice‑to‑have)
• Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse (nice‑to‑have)

What we offer

• Equity plan participation.
• Hybrid work policy.
• Choice of equipment.
• Professional Development Plan budget.
• Global Employee Assistance Program and holistic wellbeing support.
• Global Time Off Commitment and country‑specific benefits.