Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)

In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine.

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As a Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d), you will join our Cloud Architecture team to design, develop, and maintain reusable infrastructure framework components and developer tooling that simplify and standardize cloud provisioning on AWS. You will help abstract cloud complexity behind secure, consistent, and self-service interfaces that enable application teams to provision infrastructure quickly and safely. Working closely with cloud architects, platform engineers, and DevOps specialists, you will contribute to APIs, testing strategies, versioning, release management, and automation capabilities that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience across the organization. You will also support the evolution of the framework as a product by ensuring high quality, maintainability, and ease of adoption while helping scale cloud infrastructure delivery efficiently across the business.

How you create impact

• Design and deliver secure, reusable framework components that application teams can adopt easily, with simple, fast, self-service provisioning.
• Own release quality by ensuring backward compatibility, semantic versioning, cross-platform validation, and reliable delivery pipelines.
• Continuously improve framework quality through better test coverage, security compliance, adoption, and faster issue resolution.
• Help external contributors submit high-quality merge requests through clear coding standards, review guidance, and fast feedback.
• Reduce manual operational work by automating testing, publishing, changelog creation, and compatibility checks.
• Bridge the gap between provisioning and Day-2 operations by providing operational patterns and self-service runbooks.
• Partner with application and platform teams to turn infrastructure needs into reusable framework capabilities.

• Strong experience with Terraform, including modules, providers, state management, workspaces, and version control.
• Solid understanding of software design principles such as API design, separation of concerns, backward compatibility, and semantic versioning.
• Experience with Python scripting and automation for tooling, testing, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code best practices, including Git workflows, branching strategies, and merge request reviews.
• Familiarity with testing approaches such as unit, integration, mock-based, and contract testing for infrastructure components.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitLab CI), automated validation, security scanning, linting, and artifact publishing.
• Understanding of AWS services and multi-account environments, including networking, security, storage, compute, and container orchestration.
• Collaborative and curious mindset, with an interest in learning, knowledge sharing, open-source contributions, and working across global teams.

Your work has a direct impact on the future of logistics and IT. Your team is made up of experts who are shaping the IT industry in Portugal and around the world. We want you to feel comfortable in our working environment, where you will be dealing with different cultures. That is why we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely. We value teamwork, continuous learning and diversity. Kuehne+Nagel offers you a tailor-made career with individual planning and team leaders who will support you in every way. On a personal level, we support you with a wide range of work-life balance options, supplementary health insurance and our EAP - Employee Assistant Program.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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