Senior Platform Engineer

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ABOUT THE ROLE Join an AI product engineering team building a platform for integrating data from multiple sources and supporting real-time AI workflows. You will shape the platform foundations, improving reliability, performance, and operational clarity as the system scales. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Integrate AI products that process substantial data across external sources and multiple systems in real time. - Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, applying fallback and cost logic under production load. - Monitor latency, cost, and error-rate signals, then act proactively to prevent system degradation. - Make architectural decisions that improve system quality while keeping solutions simple and maintainable. - Write 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 at least 3 years using TypeScript. - Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching. - System design skills and the ability to reason about performance, latency, cost, and reliability trade-offs. - Experience improving platform performance and reliability under production load, with strong observability and incident-debugging practices. - Background working with streaming responses or language model request routing, including provider fallbacks and cost considerations. - Experience with application development as well as DevOps or SRE work; comfort contributing to frontend code when needed. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: €60,000 to €90,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION Hybrid in Munich, Germany.