Staff IT Engineer for Automation & AI transformation (Remote)

About the position SoSafe has the ambition to become the leading human risk management provider in Europe. Our award-winning awareness platform triggers behavioural change by providing effective and engaging training and simulations on cybersecurity and data protection.

Cybercrime is costing the world >\$10 trillion annually and growing by 15% p.a. - we invite you to be part of the solution!

We're seeking an exceptional candidate to join our IT Engineering team to build the foundation for our AI-native future, in one of the industry's fastest growing SaaS scale-ups.

We want you to solve the problems of making traditional automation & orchestration tools consistently useful across a whole business, balancing traditional tools against foundation models and agentic working, and enabling (and protecting) citizen builders to use spec-driven design and self-built AI-agents to actually change the organisation, reliably, safely and at scale.

Responsibilities Architect, build and iterate a toolchain fusing traditional automation tools (n8n, etc) with spec-driven design and agentic working, test out on IT and SecurityAdvocate, mentor and enable other early adopter teams to use our platforms, get value, provide feedback, iterate the platformBuild self-sustaining cultural practices across the organisation, enable whole departments, scale the platform for everyoneDrive the evolution of IT operations towards an all-encompassing -as-code infrastructure model through hands-on architecture and designContribute to the IT/Sec Operating System as we move wholesale to build-not-buy teamsMentor and level up the existing IT engineering team, then whole departments, serving as a technical guide to accelerate skills transfer and foster a strong, collaborative engineering cultureChampion and advocate for our shared automation and AI platforms and methodologies, driving cross-departmental adoption to break down operational silos.Requirements Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal Engineer level, ideally within an established, successful, cloud-native hypergrowth SaaS environmentHands-on builder and systems thinker - A background that includes hands-on coding, ideally in a platform or SRE team.A track record of successful AI-native adoption, showcasing how you've successfully moved workflows beyond experimental prompts into robust, production-grade automated workflows or agentsDeep technical mastery of at least some of: infrastructure-as-code, modern CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions) and enterprise-grade workflow orchestration (e.g., n8n, Zapier)A pragmatic engineering mindset: You understand that while agentic working is fast and flexible, it brings significant utilization costs; you know how to design hybrid architectures that balance speed with financial efficiency.Great leadership and communication skills: The biggest challenge is always people, not technology.

You treat internal teams as your customers and excel at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical \"citizen coders\" and executive stakeholders alike.Nice-to-haves IT experience is secondary, we need builders who can help others build betterBenefits Flexible hours33 vacation daysAccess to Open Upcorporate discountsVirtual eventscollaborative team activitiesopportunities for local meet-upsTech equipmentreferral bonusesdog-friendly HQ