Senior Backend DevOps Engineer Python

Define and evolve our backend architecture—making strategic decisions on service boundaries, data flows, and scaling patterns.

Design and build high-throughput content ingestion and transformation pipelines that reliably process thousands of articles daily.

Establish backend engineering standards: code quality, testing strategies, documentation practices, and review processes.

5+ years of professional Python development, with significant experience designing and operating production backend systems

• Strong data modeling skills—MongoDB or other document/NoSQL databases at scale
• Hands-on experience integrating and orchestrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) in production

Up to date and clear on pros and cons of agent-assisted software developement

DevOps & Infrastructure:

Hands-on with monitoring, logging, and alerting—you've been on-call and know what matters when things break

You've operated in environments where you had to define process, not just follow it

Experience in early-stage or high-growth startups is a strong plus. You excel at taking ownership, handling ambiguity, and understand that sometimes you have to throw away your own code.

Shape the technical foundation of a product used by major German publishers.

Support trustworthy journalism in the age of AI.

Berlin-based hybrid setup with genuine home office flexibility.

BeatSquares transforms large content archives into new formats to reach audiences. Our mission is to bring trusted journalistic information and factual content exactly where people need it—through a scalable, modern platform.