Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer

About Us
Distribusion
is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and Booking.com.

We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond.

The opportunity
As the
Engineering Manager
for the Infrastructure domain, you will lead the teams responsible for the foundations that power Distribusion's products and operations. Covering Platform Engineering, IT, and Information Security, your mission is to build scalable, secure, and reliable systems that enable our engineering teams and the wider business to operate at their best.

To prepare our technical foundation for 10x growth, we are looking for a highly strategic, business-oriented leader to transform how these critical functions operate. You will act as the crucial bridge between our infrastructure and the broader company by professionalising our tech stack, driving complex vendor negotiations, and building transparent roadmaps that clearly showcase your team's impact.

What You Will Do

• You'll lead the teams that keep Distribusion running securely, reliably, and at scale.
• From cloud infrastructure and developer tooling to internal IT and information security, you'll be responsible for the platforms and processes that enable our teams to move fast with confidence.
• You'll grow and support a team spanning Platform Engineering, IT, and Security, helping define strategy, drive execution, and raise the bar for operational excellence across the company.
• Vendor management including negotiating conditions and overseeing detailed infrastructure and project cost tracking.
• Your work will directly impact the productivity of our engineers, the resilience of our systems, and the security of our business as we continue to scale globally.

Workplace:
Berlin & Hybrid

We are mainly looking for this role to be based in Germany, preferably in our headquarters in Berlin.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience leading and developing engineering teams in high-growth technology environments.
• Strong technical background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Information Security, or related domains.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and improving engineering teams, processes, and operational excellence.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and balancing strategic initiatives with day-to-day operational priorities.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation, observability, and security best practices.
• Experience driving reliability, availability, and security improvements in production environments at scale.
• Ability to partner effectively with Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders and align technical initiatives with company goals.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions across all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers and technical leaders.
• Data-driven mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Experience leading teams across Platform Engineering, Internal IT, and Information Security functions.
• Experience with compliance and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR-related initiatives.
• Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organisations.
• Previous experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS, marketplace, or travel technology company.

What You Can Expect

• Make a global impact. Help shape how millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.
• Own your work. Take responsibility from day one and see the direct impact of your contributions.
• Built with the best tools. We move fast, continuously evolve our tech stack, and invest in modern, efficient solutions.
• Work with industry leaders. Our partners include Booking.com, Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
• Grow with exceptional people. Join an international team that will challenge, support, and inspire you every day.
• Work your way. Enjoy flexible and remote-friendly working options, relocation opportunities, and plenty of room to grow.

Our hiring team for this role:
Your Talent Partner (TP) and point of contact is
Lorena Rebenciuc
, and the Hiring Manager (HM) is
Ilya Isakov
.

For any queries, contact your Talent Partner at (talent@distribusion.com).

Do you want to work on a product used by millions of people daily, with high load, availability, and scalability, and the most advanced technology? Come join us!

Job Description
Kiteworks helps organizations secure and govern sensitive content across their workflows, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves solving problems, building automation, and making things run smoothly. You’ll join a small, collaborative team where every day brings something new, whether it’s improving pipelines, modernizing infrastructure, or experimenting with new tools.

This isn’t a role where you sit in one lane. You’ll work closely with developers, QA, and security teams, unblock issues fast, and help us keep things moving. If you like variety, ownership, and the chance to make a real impact, you’ll fit right in.

What You'll Do

• Automate workflows
  to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency across build, release, and infrastructure tasks.
• Manage cloud and container environments
  , primarily AWS along with Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  to support smooth, fast releases and continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and security teams
  to troubleshoot issues and keep projects moving.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives
  , exploring new tools and approaches to improve our DevOps practices.
• Maintain secure cloud environments
  by enforcing access controls, monitoring, and configuration management aligned with ISO 27001 and data protection requirements.

What You'll Bring

• A few years of experience (2–5 years)
  in DevOps or software engineering, ideally in environments where automation and infrastructure as code are key.
• Solid programming skills
  – Python is strongly preferred because most of our codebase uses it. Experience with other languages (e.g., Go, Bash, or similar) is welcome.

– You should be comfortable writing scripts and building tools—not just using off-the-shelf solutions.

– Ability to structure code for maintainability and scalability (object-oriented principles are a plus).

• Comfort with Linux
  – You’ll work primarily in Linux environments, so strong command-line skills and troubleshooting ability are essential.
• Cloud platform experience
  – AWS is our main platform, but Azure or GCP experience is acceptable. You should understand concepts like EC2, networking, IAM, and storage.
• Familiarity with containers and CI/CD concepts
  – Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is important, as well as understanding how pipelines work (GitLab CI preferred).
• Mindset matters
  – Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn are key because we’re modernizing and evolving constantly

The Values That Define Us

• Execution – We deliver results with focus, ownership, and consistency. Our teams take initiative, solve challenges proactively, and continuously optimize how we work to create meaningful impact for our customers.
• Transparency – We communicate openly and clearly, ensuring stakeholders have the information they need to make informed decisions. We foster a culture of trust, welcome feedback, and embrace accountability in everything we do.
• Integrity – We uphold the highest standards of honesty and responsibility. Our teams act ethically, consistently honor commitments, and build trust through principled, reliable actions.

Job Benefits

Your Workplace:
hybrid – work 3 days in our modern office and 2 days remote!

Your Equipment:
Mac or Microsoft – you work with the IT equipment of your choice.

Your Health:
Stay healthy with our additional health insurance. Stay fit with our Multisport card, subsidized 100% by Kiteworks.

Your KITEWORKS:
On-site, stay hydrated, enjoy coffee, tea, snacks and the obligatory fruit basket twice a week. Have fun with our team events and parties. Shop with 200 BGN monthly in Food vouchers.

Your Extra:
Stay on top of your game with our competitive compensation package including stock options

Commitment to Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

Kiteworks is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Kiteworks, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

Kiteworks Background Check: This position requires passing the Kiteworks background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

The Short Version

You own Google as a paid acquisition channel for Viktor. Search, Performance Max, YouTube, the full Google ad stack - strategy, keyword and audience structure, budget, performance. You've built this machine before, at scale. Now you build it again - with better tools, more budget discipline, and no legacy to work around.

What's Actually Going On Here

Viktor is an AI-native product growing fast. We're standing up paid acquisition as a serious discipline under the Head of Performance Marketing, and Google is one of the channels we believe in. You'll be the founding owner of it - end-to-end, no agency layer. You'll also manage the Google Specialist: you set the playbook and the bar, they run the account with you.

Day-1 operator. Day-180 architect of how Viktor runs Google, using AI tooling to compound your output.

What You'll Actually Do

• Own Google Ads end-to-end. Search campaign structure, keyword strategy, match-type discipline, negative keyword hygiene, PMax asset groups, YouTube where it earns its budget.
• Run landing page and conversion path experiments alongside the ad work. Quality Score and post-click conversion are part of your job.
• Set the experimentation cadence. Weekly tests with clear hypotheses, documented results, compounding learnings.
• Own measurement and attribution. Enhanced conversions, offline conversion import, conversion modeling.
• Build the keyword, audience, and asset library. The playbook compounds.
• Manage the Google Specialist. Set direction, review the work, level them up.
• Partner with the Head of Performance Marketing on budget and prioritization. Push back when Google isn't the right channel for a goal.
• Report weekly on spend, CAC, pipeline contribution. Numbers, not narrative.

The Bar

You'll be measured on pipeline and CAC from Google. Not on impression share, CTR, or campaign count. "I'd need a PPC specialist and a landing page team" is an instant no-hire. You're both.

How You'll Know It's Working

30 days: account audited, bad match types killed, conversion tracking clean, first experiments shipped. 90 days: Google is a predictable, scaling channel with a documented playbook and a hiring rubric for the next seat.

Who You Are

• 4-8 years running paid search, with deep Google Ads experience for B2B SaaS or AI. Pipeline-accountable.
• Direct media buyer at scale. You've worked directly on acquisition campaigns in the platform - not through an agency - with serious media spend ($1M+/month). You owned the spend and the outcome.
• Attribution fluency. GA4 and pixel implementation, enhanced and offline conversions, server-side event optimization.
• You think about the whole conversion path. Ad to landing page to signup to paying.
• Documented experimentation practice. You can show the cadence and the wins from a prior role.
• AI-native daily workflow. Claude and similar tools are core to how you work.
• You've leveled people up before. You can take a sharp 1-2 year operator and make them dangerous.
• You raise the bar. Your playbook becomes the house playbook.

Why This Role Is Different

• No agency layer. You own the account.
• The Head of Performance Marketing and the co-founders care about how Viktor grows. You'll have data; they'll have opinions. The good ideas win.
• The product makes the work easier. The right buyer converts when they land. Your job is making sure the right buyer lands.

Even Better If

• You've scaled paid search from zero at a Series A or B B2B SaaS.
• You've worked on AI or PLG products.
• You've owned landing page experimentation alongside the ad account.

How we work

Small team, high trust, low process. Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You will ship your first week. You will talk to users your first day.

We don't do alignment meetings or stakeholder syncs. We build things, see if they work, and iterate.

Why Viktor

We're one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. The product works. The market is pulling.

This is a rare window: everyone here owns something real. Not a task. A surface of the company that customers depend on.

That doesn't last forever. Right now, it's still true.

Compensation

Top-of-the-market salary and the kind of ownership that only exists at this stage.

The best work happens when you're in the room. Munich, New York, Dublin, and Warsaw. Remote for some roles.

Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview
Department description

The position is part of our Core Platforms & Services (CPS) Cybersecurity organization which operates and manages MSI’s Cloud Public Safety Application SaaS platform. You will be part of a team that is responsible for the security of these mission critical systems that are used everyday by public safety and government agencies across multiple countries. In this role, you will also be working in a world-class team that uses state of the art technologies and techniques. This team is part of Motorola Solutions’ Software Enterprise division, which offers secure, reliable and efficient team communications, workflow and operational intelligence solutions for mission critical public safety and enterprise markets throughout the world.

Job Description
We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer / DevSecOps to join our team in protecting organizational cloud assets through robust automated security services. This role focuses on managing cloud security across Motorola Solutions product cloud environments. You will implement proactive vulnerability and threat detection systems while ensuring seamless regulatory compliance across our cloud ecosystem. In this role, you will also be working in a world-class team that uses state of the art technologies and techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Security Posture Management: Serve as a member of the team responsible for monitoring and assessing the security posture of cloud infrastructure and deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Infrastructure Protection: Deploy and maintain security capabilities, including CNAPP, Vulnerability detection, WAF, and firewalls.
• Automation: Develop tools for automated self-verification of security functions and support automated inventory and security alerting.
• Compliance: Support compliance assessments for various industry standards, including NIST 800-53, OWASP, GDPR, ISO, and SOC 2.
• Incident Collaboration: Collaborate on detection rules and assist with incident response, occasionally serving as an Incident Coordinator.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of security technology evolution and provide recommendations to enhance the overall security posture.

Basic Requirements

• Experience: 3 years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or security engineering within virtualized systems
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with a variety of work partners.
• Cloud Platforms: Good understanding of AWS, Azure, and GCP is required, though deep domain expertise is not a prerequisite.
• Cybersecurity: Understanding of cybersecurity and compliance concepts and framework adherence (e.g., NIST, ISO, FedRAMP).
• Containers & Orchestration: Experience with Containerization (Docker) and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Software Engineering: Ability to develop code and automation scripts in Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, Bash, or Azure CLI.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Knowledge of containerized software deployments using AzureDevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions.
• Version Control: Knowledge of version control practices (GIT).
• Systems & Monitoring: Basic Linux system administration skills and familiarity with the Elastic stack.
• Network Security: Understanding of network protocols, topologies, and firewall/WAF configuration and use.
• Quick learning: Curiosity and ability to quickly learn new technologies and security practices as the cloud landscape evolves.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with tools used to secure cloud and containerized deployments such as Wiz or Prisma Cloud
• Experience with Kyverno policy management.
• Education: A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field

In Return For Your Expertise, We’ll Support You In This New Challenge With Coaching & Development Every Step Of The Way. Also, To Reward Your Work, You’ll Get The Following

• Contract of Employment (UoP)
• IP Tax Relief (up to 40%)
• Private medical coverage, Multisport
• Life insurance (two annual incomes),
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan – 15% discount for buying Motorola’s Stock units,
• Employee Pension Plan – 3,5 % of the month’s salary gross, which goes to the retirement account
• Yearly salary increase (depends on individual performance)
• Yearly bonus (depends on company performance)
• 8 hours working day (30 minutes lunch break included).
• Hybrid work / remote work

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Company
Motorola Solutions Systems Polska Sp.z.o.o

EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.