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Forward Deployed Software Engineer (SRE)

Deepset GmbH

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Location:
Germany; Spain, Berlin

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

Not provided

Job Description:

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (SRE) to work directly with our strategic customers. By embedding with their teams, you will design, deploy, and scale deepset’s AI platform in production. You’ll blend SRE mindset with engineering depth: building integrations, hardening infra, and making sure everything runs smoothly and reliably. If you love solving complex infra challenges hands-on and want to see your work drive real-world AI adoption, this role is for you.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design & Land: Own technical outcomes from POC → production: integrations, data connectors, workflows, and infra-as-code (Kubernetes/Terraform/Helm)
  • Produce reference architectures and reusable templates
  • upstream patterns to Product to reduce future “custom” work
  • Unblock enterprise environments: identity (OIDC/SAML), networking, storage, GPU scheduling, observability hooks
  • Run & Harden: Define SLOs/Error Budgets with customers
  • implement end-to-end observability (logs/metrics/traces) and dashboards
  • Create runbooks/playbooks
  • lead L3 incident response and RCAs
  • drive reliability roadmaps to closure
  • Plan/execute upgrades and security patches in change windows
  • ensure rollback and post-upgrade verification
  • Be an active member of the on-call rotation to make sure we deliver excellent customer experience
  • Partner & Enable: Train customer teams on operations and emergency procedures
  • hand off cleanly to Support/CSM
  • Prioritize reliability and “productization” backlog with Product/Engineering based on field signal
  • Document clearly: setup guides, diagrams, SLOs, testing/DR procedures, and “golden path” standards

Requirements:

  • Hands on experience in programming language in Python (needed for improvements, bug fixing and small feature builds)
  • 7+ years across SRE/Platform/Solutions/FDE, with evidence of shipping customer-facing builds and operating production systems
  • Strong with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, IaC (Terraform/Helm), CI/CD, networking (TLS, DNS, ingress/LB), backup/restore
  • Observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/ELK)
  • scripting (Python/Bash)
  • Enterprise integration experience (SSO, secrets, compliance)
  • confident communicator with execs and engineers under time pressure
  • Must be resident of the European Union with an EU Passport

Nice to have:

German language skills

What we offer:
  • Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice
  • 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave
  • Competitive salary & stock options for every team member
  • Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva
  • Annual learning & development budget
  • Monthly team socials & in-person meetups
  • Dog-friendly Berlin HQ

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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