Fiber-to-home infrastructure operator scaling rural broadband across Germany
Deutsche Glasfaser builds and operates fiber-optic networks for homes, businesses, and public institutions across rural Germany. The tech stack—Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Azure Data Factory, and Nokia NSP—reflects a hybrid operational model: cloud data pipelines for analytics and a telecoms-grade network management layer. Active hiring is concentrated in engineering and product (49 of 89 roles), with a leadership gap in senior network design and a repeated focus on ServiceNow platform optimization and capacity planning, indicating operational scaling challenges as deployment accelerates.
Notable leadership hires: IP/MPLS Design Lead
Deutsche Glasfaser is a fiber infrastructure operator founded in 2011 and headquartered in Düsseldorf. The company plans, builds, and operates open-access fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the-street (FTTS) networks targeting underserved rural regions in Germany, serving residential, commercial, and public-sector customers. With 1,001–5,000 employees, the organization runs a dual-stack operation: network engineering and construction teams manage physical infrastructure rollout, while a modern data and platform team (Snowflake, dbt, Kafka) handles operations, forecasting, and service delivery. Current initiatives center on ServiceNow platform consolidation, FTTS expansion, and process automation—all pointing toward network-at-scale operations.
Core tools: Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Kafka for data pipelines; Qlik Sense, Tableau, Power BI for analytics; ServiceNow for operations/IT service management; Nokia NSP for network management; PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL for databases; Docker, Java, Spring Boot for application development.
FTTS (fiber-to-the-street) rollout expansion; ServiceNow platform optimization and integration with OSS/BSS systems; DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) network solutions; CI/CD and release management processes; capacity planning and forecast/variance analysis.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size