Site Reliability Engineer

Who we are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

At Helsing we develop and deliver AI-based capabilities and the enabling infrastructure that allow semi-autonomous platforms to localize, navigate, and perceive the world in real time. We build software that is subject to significant and unorthodox technical constraints, must operate in a wide variety of constantly changing environments, and has to support an ever-growing list of challenging use-cases. What we build ultimately ends up in the hands of real people in high-risk, high-stress situations, so must be both reliable and frictionless.

Most of our work happens in classified environments. Your role will be to develop and implement concepts to operate a modern development stack within the rules of a classified environment and to support our project teams with all topics related to classified IT.

• Together with our software developers, you will analyze our products and solutions with respect to Geheimschutz requirements. Design and implement solutions for strong access controls, logging and monitoring, and domain transfers between red and black networks.
• You will install, configure, operate, and maintain security tooling in classified environments, e.g. data diodes, SDoT gateways, firewalls, and VPN solutions.
• You will be responsible for the installation, operation, and maintenance of product and solution related IT in classified environments. You will support the project teams with all topics related to classified IT.
• As a part of the Geheimschutz team, you can decide to take over additional responsibility as a crypto custodian or an IT-VS registrar.
• You will support the continuous effort to optimize and enhance Geheimschutz in Helsing.
• You will collaborate closely with our Security and App Sec teams to maintain and evolve our tech-stack.

• Scripting: experience in either Python, Go, Ruby or Bash/Shell for automation and tooling
• System Administration: deep understanding of Linux/Unix system administration
• Expert using Unix and command-line tools and working in remote environments (eg. via ssh)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tooling like Docker and Kubernetes
• Networking:
  Expert understanding of networking concepts, protocols and security.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tooling for different technical stacks, both hardware and virtualised.
• Comfortable building out data and telemetry pipelines for debugging and future-proofing solutions.

• Already had a German SÜ2 or SÜ3 security clearance, not older than five years and you are willing to undergo security clearance
• Have a high level of personal integrity, reliability, and attention to detail
• Are willing to relocate to Munich
• Are fluent in German and English

Note:

The above bullet points describe the ideal candidate. None of us matched all of these at once when we first joined Helsing. We encourage you to apply even if you believe you meet only part of our wish list.

• Already have experience with planning and operating IT in a GEHEIM environment

• Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns.
• The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and…