Technical Working Student – 100% Remote

The Basics

Giant Swarm is a leading open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises worldwide. We empower developers to ship great products by providing a robust and user-friendly Kubernetes platform.

Your Job

• Package cloud-native tools for the Giant Swarm App Platform using Helm.
• Build, improve, and test Kubernetes controllers written in Go.
• Collaborate with App Engineers to improve the stability, security, and performance of these tools.
• Write and execute automated tests to ensure the quality of our offerings.
• Improve operations through dashboards, alerts, and logging. Automate updates and improve usability.
• Write technical documentation to enable seamless customer adoption.
• Explore and experiment with new technologies and contribute to open-source projects.

What We Offer:

• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes and cloud-native applications.
• Work closely with experienced engineers and receive valuable guidance and support, combined with a dedicated onboarding process.
• Assistance and support with your Bachelors/Masters Thesis.
• Enjoy the flexibility of a remote working environment.
• Perks:
  • €300 budget when you join to help set up your home working environment, think screens, chair, headphones.
  • Book budget every month
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, which includes counselling, financial, and legal advice.
  • Paid vacation.
  • Invite to our yearly onsites! All travel, accommodation, and associated costs covered. Previous locations include Croatia, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco…
• €18 per hour.

Requirements

• Prior experience with container-based workloads (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with open-source contributions is a plus.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Collaboration: Ability to work independently and effectively within a remote team.
• Location: Ideally based in Germany and currently enrolled as a student. Other applications will also be considered.

About us

Every new team member changes the team. We love to learn from each other and we are looking for people who know things we don’t.

• Becoming part of Giant Swarm means that, by extension, you also become part of the Cloud Native community. We actively contribute to upstream projects and our quarterly hackathons will give you space to work on out-of-the-box projects. Occasionally, when we, as a team, want to fully focus on one project, we scratch all meetings and routines for a certain time to better focus during our hive-sprints.
• Continuous learning is important to us – we foster this through bi-yearly personal development talks, a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshops. Our teams are cross- functional and collaboration is key.
• Nothing crazy, but useful Basics: We currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!). We don’t count holidays but set a minimum number; You choose your own hard- and software; As a company that has almost, if not more, kids than employees, family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no-brainer; We pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely; We meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team members; We aim to be fully transparent (finance, salaries) unless it hurts people and trust you, based on this to make the best decisions

We failed in exactly describing our way to approach important company elements that can be described with ‘buzzwords’ such as agile mindset, cross-functional teams, self-organization, value of the individual or trust & teamwork. However, we truly care about them, we live them and we constantly iterate on them. Some snippets about how we do this are posted in our blog but by far not all of them.

Important note: We are not hiring job descriptions. We hire humans. 🙂 We welcome applications from everybody, regardless ethnic or national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or age. When you apply for a role at Giant Swarm, we will also consider you for other relevant roles, or ones that may come up in future if this one isn’t a good fit at this time.