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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Postaladdress
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €60,000.0 - €90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, PostgreSQL, Caching, Low Latency, Real Time Data, Front End Software Development, Docker
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-platform-engineer-w-m-d-clera-10285562

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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.