DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

At Phrase, we help open the door to global business by providing the world’s most comprehensive localization platform.

We’re transforming language technology with our AI platform to give people the content they need, in the language they speak. Whether it's for digital products like an app or website, marketing comms, legal literature, internal comms or customer service messaging, Phrase ensures that content always hits its mark by being on brand, consistent, and culturally resonant.

With a global team working from our offices in Hamburg and Prague—or from home across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region—we help organizations like Uber, Shopify, Puma, Snowflake, Volkswagen and thousands of others engage their customers at scale to accelerate growth.

As a DevOps Engineer at Phrase, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping and supporting our core platform and infrastructure. You’ll collaborate closely with developers, helping to design, build, and maintain tools and systems that empower teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently. We believe DevOps is at the forefront of tackling challenges: we’re often the first to engage with complex issues and work hand-in-hand with our colleagues to find the best possible solutions. If you enjoy being at the intersection of development and operations, solving problems, and improving processes, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Improving and maintaining Phrase AWS deployment with Ansible and Terraform
• Making sure our Kubernetes infrastructure is working reliably and helping development teams to use it via provided tooling
• Maintaining key Phrase database clusters - Elasticsearch, MariaDB and MongoDB from an infrastructure point of view
• Update the Phrase Platform based on requirements from development teams to help us scale out
• Ensuring all the configuration is treated as code in a Git repository and continuously improving our CI/CD
• Integrating new technologies to the Phrase stack and helping development teams in various stages of development with architecture and tooling
• Improving the observability of our platform and supporting development teams in leveraging monitoring and insights.
• Participating in a 24x7 on-call duty with the rest of the engineers within the team

What you need:

• Experience with running workloads in Kubernetes and public cloud (any of AWS, Azure, GCP or similar) is essential
• Good knowledge of Linux and the basic principles of networking
• Willingness to learn new technologies and expand your skills as we are growing
• Demonstrable experience with GitOps and IaaC tools such as Ansible, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI/CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform and programming and scripting language such as Bash, Golang, Python

Our current tech stack in this role:

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, Aurora, CloudFront, Lambda, S3, ECR, and more)
• Databases & Storage: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, Valkey, Memcached
• Messaging & Streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Version Control & Monitoring: GitHub, GitLab, Datadog, Logz.io
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Karpenter
• Infrastructure as Code & Scripting: Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python, Ruby

What you’ll get:

• Work experience in a successful and growing global SaaS company
• Be part of an international team of 300+ in Europe, APAC, and the Americas
• Expert colleagues in their field who are determined to build the best localization platform on the market, creating a world where language never limits opportunity
• An agile work environment, where it is encouraged to take smart risks
• Take part in a culture full of trust, support and loyalty, where respectful and open feedback is valued, and diversity is fully embraced
• A positive, open-minded, and innovative atmosphere
• Support in your professional development and personal career goals

What's on top:

• 4 Company holidays additional to your regular holidays (1 day per quarter where the entire company is off to celebrate our achievements).
• In addition, the company also provides employees with a Christmas break to allow you to spend time with family and friends without use of your vacation allocation.
• Your birthday is off because it is important to celebrate you as well.
• 2 Giveback days where you can support the local community, volunteer, and/or participate in charity events and activities.
• Professional and extensive onboarding.
• Learning & development through Phrase learning
• Additional local benefits depending on the entity you're hired at, just ask your Talent Acquisition Partner

At Phrase we believe in the critical importance of diversity in all its forms and intersectionalities, and are committed to ensuring that the people we interview reflect this diversity. We therefore strongly encourage people of any identity to apply for our exciting career opportunities. We have taken an active decision to make our work environment inclusive every day, starting at the very beginning of your Phrase experience.

We value and welcome different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds as we believe that these differences make our team even stronger on our mission of opening the door to global business by giving everybody access to the content they need in the language they speak.