Cologne, Germany (Hybrid) Team: Engineering · Reports to: CTO · Format: Working Student (16–20h/week) or Internship (3–6 months) Keep the world awake - build the platform thousands of DevOps teams rely on ilert helps thousands of DevOps & IT teams detect, fix, and communicate incidents faster.
When a critical system goes down, our platform is the "source of truth" — from the resilient backend that processes thousands of events per second to the fast, intuitive frontend engineers stare at under pressure.
We are looking for a Working Student or Intern who loves building software and doesn't want to be boxed into a single layer of the stack.
Whether you lean frontend, backend, or full-stack, you'll ship production code that powers a mission-critical SaaS product.
We match projects to your strengths and our business needs — and we're happy to help you grow in whichever direction excites you most.
Tasks Ship End-to-End Features: Build user-facing features with React and TypeScript, the backend APIs behind them, or both.
Backend & Scale: Help design robust APIs and data pipelines in our backend stack (we mainly use Java and Rust) and work with distributed systems like Kafka and ClickHouse.
Frontend & Craft: Contribute to our modular component library and help keep the UI fast, accessible, and rock-solid when customers need it most.
Flexible Project Scope: From core alerting logic to integrations (Slack, MS Teams, Jira) to AI-powered SRE features — we'll match the work to your interests.
Quality & Reliability: Write tests and care.
Coding Foundation: Hands-on experience with at least one part of our stack — React/TypeScript on the frontend and/or a backend language like Java, Go, Rust, Python, or Node.
CS Fundamentals: A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and h.