Senior Platform Engineer (w/m/d)

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.