Senior Platform Engineer - IoT/Telemetry (w/m/d)

REPLOID is a pioneer in the circular bioeconomy: thanks to scalable recycling solutions, organic waste is transformed directly at its source into new valuable resources and marketable products, for example, for the feed and fertilizer industry. We exemplary provide added value and make a significant contribution to meeting the growing demands for sustainability in waste management.

wearereploid – We think long-term and set new standards. To continue advancing our mission, we are looking for you. With us, your work has a visible impact! If you're looking for more than just "business as usual," want to take responsibility and be involved in decision-making, you'll fit in perfectly with our dedicated team!

Your mission

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will take on technical responsibility for our industrial telemetry pipeline: from the OPC-UA client on an Edge Gateway based on Linux, via MQTT and cloud ingestion, to the corresponding data storage and provision.

Your first focus will be on receiving, stabilizing, and reliably operating the existing system. On this basis, you will develop reusable platform components, clear data contracts, and stable interfaces. You will work closely with Automation Engineering, but without direct responsibility for SPS/PLS programming or automation logic.

Your tasks

• Receiving, stabilizing, and operating the existing telemetry pipeline from the gateway to the cloud
• Managing the lifecycle of industrial Linux-based gateways, including onboarding, security, monitoring, maintenance, and recovery
• Developing OPC-UA client services and collectors, as well as transforming data into versioned MQTT topics and payloads
• Creating robust transmission and deployment processes with reconnections, retries, buffering, store-and-forward, idempotency, controlled replay, and secure deployment and rollback
• Developing cloud ingestion and processing, as well as selecting and operating a suitable telemetry store
• Ensuring end-to-end observability, testing, and documentation (Runbooks), as well as designing stable APIs and data contracts
• Technical collaboration with Automation Engineering and external partners on contract changes, integration testing, incidents, and handover

What you bring with you

• Many years of experience in Backend or Platform Engineering with a technology stack close to production
• Proven end-to-end experience with distributed systems – from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and incident response
• Hands-on experience with MQTT or similar messaging technologies, as well as with Event-driven Architecture and Reliability Patterns
• Knowledge of Linux-based Edge environments and reproducible, containerized deployments
• Experience with cloud technologies and DevOps, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, access management, monitoring, and telemetry storage
• Confidence in designing APIs and data contracts, good testing practices
• Communication skills at the level of fluent English (spoken and written) and enjoyment of collaboration between software development, automation, and operations
• Hands-on experience with OPC UA in production environments, as well as with Time-Series databases and telemetry storage strategies, and confident handling of AWS IoT Core or similar managed IoT platforms will be an advantage

What we offer you

• Meaningful work in an innovative, sustainable company
• The opportunity to create a central industrial platform and shape it in the long term
• Short decision-making paths and real technical end-to-end responsibility
• A dynamic, growing work environment with ample room for creativity
• Flat hierarchies, team spirit, and an open corporate culture
• Hybrid work and flexible hours