Senior Platform Engineer

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ABOUT THE ROLE Join an AI product engineering team building a platform that connects data sources and supports real-time workflows. You will shape the platform foundations, helping keep systems reliable, performant, and straightforward to operate as they scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Integrate AI products that process data from external sources and multiple systems in real time. - Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, with fallback and cost controls. - Monitor latency, costs, and error rates, then address issues proactively before they degrade the experience. - Make architectural decisions that balance system quality with simple, maintainable designs. - Build application code alongside platform and operational work, and investigate production issues through instrumentation and root-cause analysis. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 3 years of production backend engineering experience, including substantial TypeScript experience and ownership of production systems. - Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching. - Strong system design skills and the ability to reason about performance, latency, reliability, and cost trade-offs. - Experience improving platform reliability and performance under production load, and building observability to diagnose complex systems. - Experience with streaming responses or language model request routing across providers is valuable. - Comfort contributing to frontend code when needed, and experience with CI/CD, safe deployments, and incident follow-up is beneficial. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Annual base salary: €60,000 to €90,000. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION Hybrid work arrangement, based in Munich, Germany.