Senior Platform Engineer (w/m/d)

Department: Engineering

Location: Munich

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at an AI product studio and help build the foundation for reliable, high-performing AI products. You will shape how data, streaming responses, and language model requests move through production systems, helping the platform stay dependable as usage grows.

What You'll Do

• Integrate AI products with external data sources and multiple systems, handling rich context and real-time data flows.

• Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, using fallback and cost logic to maintain correctness under production load.

• Monitor latency distributions, costs, and error rates, then act proactively to prevent system degradation.

• Make architectural decisions that improve reliability and performance while keeping systems simple and maintainable.

• Build and improve instrumentation and observability to identify missing signals and investigate complex production issues.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of production backend engineering experience, including 3 or more years working with TypeScript.

• Experience owning production platform foundations and improving reliability and performance under real-world load.

• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong system design skills, including the ability to reason about performance, latency, and cost trade-offs.

• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching.

• Experience with instrumentation, observability, and root-cause analysis; familiarity with streaming responses or language model request routing is valuable.

• Comfort contributing to frontend code when needed.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €60,000 to €90,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in Munich, Germany.