Senior Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a product engineering team building a business-focused AI platform. You will shape the platform foundations that make AI integrations reliable, performant, and straightforward to operate in production. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and integrate AI product capabilities that process data from external sources and multiple systems in real time. - Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, including fallback and cost-management logic. - Monitor latency, costs, and error rates, then act proactively to prevent reliability or performance issues. - Make architectural decisions that improve system quality while keeping solutions simple and maintainable. - Instrument services, investigate production issues, and implement fixes that address root causes. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 3 years of backend engineering experience, including production TypeScript application development. - Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, alongside hands-on application coding. - Strong system design skills and the ability to reason about performance, latency, and cost trade-offs. - Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching. - Experience improving platform reliability and performance under production load, including observability, instrumentation, and root-cause analysis. - Experience with streaming responses or routing language model requests across providers, including fallback and cost logic. - CI/CD, safe deployment practices, secure permissions, and structured incident follow-up are valuable; comfort contributing to frontend code is also helpful. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: €60,000 to €90,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION Hybrid role based in Munich, Germany.