Working Student, Site Reliability Engineering (in Chemnitz)

About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication. Our industry-leading and award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email solutions – create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

At Staffbase, we are experiencing incredible growth. Year after year, we multiply not only in terms of headcount and customers but also in terms of traffic and resource usage. Our growing customer base actively uses their respective employee experience apps on a daily basis. We build hundreds of these custom-branded apps, store vast amounts of data, and handle numerous HTTP requests.

To achieve this, we rely on Kubernetes and other tools from the CNCF Landscape, such as Istio, VictoriaMetrics, FluxCD and Terraform. Together with our development teams we operate a service-oriented architecture that communicates over REST, gRPC, and Kafka. Furthermore, we store data in multiple databases, including MongoDB, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. In addition to that, we also work on our own tools and services, such as our observability platform, which we mostly develop with Go.

To support our growing infrastructure, we are looking for a self-driven working student interested in site reliability engineering. You will contribute to ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and sustainability of our platform.

If you are an empathetic team player motivated by growth and ownership, we would love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing 

  • Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the infrastructure and tools necessary for the reliable operation of our platform
  • Observe system performance to identify and resolve issues before they impact our customers
  • Collaborate with development teams to deploy new features and services in a reliable and scalable manner
  • Participate in continuous improvement of our systems and processes through observation and experimentation

What you need to be successful 

  • You are a student with background in Software Engineering, Computer Science, System Administration or similar, and being available for ~20h/week
  • You already have a solid Linux/Unix experience and are curious about the cloud native world
  • As a bonus, you have already gained some practical experience with cloud service components, Kubernetes, DevOps or CI/CD
  • You are eager to learn and grow, helping the team providing a reliable and scaling foundation for our service landscape
  • You have a hands-on mentality, and are looking forward working in an international team
  • You have very good English skills, both written and spoken

What we offer

  • Flexible working hours to accommodate your academic schedule
  • Hands-on experience with modern technologies in a fast-growing SaaS company
  • A supportive team environment with opportunities for professional growth and development
  • The chance to make a meaningful impact on our infrastructure and services

 

Chemnitz
Engineering, Students