# Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Reel

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> Responsibilities: - Maintain and improve reliability of core

- **Company:** Reel (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/reel)
- **Location:** Denmark
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 2–5 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Software engineering, Infrastructure, Backend systems, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as code, Reliability engineering, Security practices, Networking, VPNs, Data infrastructure, Elixir, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-08-11
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-08-11
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://careers.reel.energy/jobs/8202156-software-engineer-infrastructure (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/software-engineer-infrastructure-reel

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve reliability of core systems that dispatch grid-scale assets, trade energy and serve real-time data.
- Build and maintain secure, resilient connections to physical assets (solar, wind, batteries) and associated networking/VPN setups.
- Implement and enforce security best practices across the engineering team (least-privilege, secure dev environments, audits).
- Operate and evolve data infrastructure: performance, cost-efficiency, ETL pipelines and internal data tools.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code, observability, alerting and incident response processes.
- Review code, contribute to architecture decisions and raise the team’s operational and reliability bar.

Requirements:
- Experience shipping production backend services; strong debugging and operational mindset.
- Hands-on with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, and IaC tools (Terraform, ArgoCD or similar).
- Familiarity with databases (Postgres/TimescaleDB), monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) and data warehouses (BigQuery).
- Good understanding of security, networking and secure device connectivity.
- Comfortable with autonomy, pragmatic trade-offs and collaborating closely with product and CTO.
- Eagerness to learn domain-specific systems (energy) and to drive pragmatic, reliable solutions.

## Responsibilities

You will maintain and secure the core infrastructure systems, including grid-scale assets and data platforms. Additionally, you will drive security practices across the engineering team and contribute to technical decision-making.

## Requirements

You should have experience building and maintaining production backend systems and cloud infrastructure. While specific stack experience is not required, you must be eager to learn and capable of working independently.

## FAQ

- **Is this Software Engineer, Infrastructure role still open?** It was posted on 2026-08-11. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Reel's site before applying.
- **Does Reel offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Reel's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Denmark. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Software engineering, Infrastructure, Backend systems, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as code, Reliability engineering, Security practices, Networking, VPNs, Data infrastructure, Elixir, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform.

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