Meet DeepL
DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets today trust DeepL's Language AI platform for human-like translation, improved writing and real-time voice translation. Founded in 2017 by CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski, DeepL now has around 1,000 passionate employees and is supported by world-renowned investors including Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures.
What sets us apart
What sets us apart is our blend of cutting-edge AI technology, meaningful work, and a culture where people truly thrive. We’re a team of innovators, researchers, and creators driven by a shared purpose to unlock human potential by making work simpler, smarter, and more connected.
Meet the team behind this journey
You will join the API Enterprise team. We sit at the intersection of DeepL's API platform and our Enterprise ecosystem. Whereas the Core team obsesses over the self-service developer journey, our focus is on enterprise customer adoption: the usage insights, cost controls, RBAC, compliance, and data residency capabilities that enterprise IT and security teams depend on. We work hand-in-hand with a wide set of stakeholder teams to make DeepL's API the obvious and safe choice for global enterprises.
Your responsibilities
- Drive Enterprise API Adoption: You will own the features that turn enterprise interest into deep, durable adoption. Examples include usage insights, cost and consumption controls, and the governance tooling that lets large organizations understand and manage how they use DeepL's APIs.
- Build for Governance & Compliance: You will design the controls enterprise IT and security admins rely on (roles and permissions, projects, data residency, and audit-ability), making DeepL the compliant default for regulated, global organizations.
- Guardianship of Quality & Production Reliability: You will own your services end-to-end, including participation in the API on-call rotation, with a shared goal of taking our public API to four nines of reliability. You will implement strong contract testing, monitoring, and SLOs, preventing breaking changes and security vulnerabilities before they reach our enterprise customers.
- Architect Across the Enterprise Ecosystem: You will work deep within DeepL's existing technical and organizational structures, navigating dependencies across different areas and many stakeholder teams to ship cohesive, reliable enterprise capabilities.
What we offer
- Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities.
- Open communication, regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together.
- Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team’s general locations and time zones.
- Virtual Shares: Every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth.
- Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team.
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about.
- 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources.
- Competitive benefits: we've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location.
Qualities we look for
- An "Enterprise-First" Mindset: You treat enterprise IT and security admins as your primary users. You understand that earning their trust means clear governance, predictable cost control, robust compliance, fast response times and data residency.
- Backend Mastery at Scale (C# / .NET): You have deep expertise designing scalable backend systems, RESTful APIs, and distributed architectures, primarily in C# / .NET, and you've worked with high-scale distributed systems in production. Roughly 80-90% of the work is backend; working on the frontend (React/TypeScript) is a welcome plus.
- Enterprise Platform Fluency: You bring hands-on experience with the building blocks of modern enterprise APIs (MCP, CLIs, and OAuth).
- Cross-Team Leadership: You have a track record of leading projects across multiple teams.
- Extreme Ownership & Operational Excellence: You own your services end-to-end (production operations, incident response, and on-call) and you're motivated by pushing reliability toward four nines.
- AI-Native Velocity: You leverage AI-powered tools (like Claude Code, Codex or GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery.
- Bonus points if you have: a track record of zero-downtime migrations on live systems; experience with metering, quota, or usage-data systems; worked in a compliance environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, C5, or similar).
