Senior Platform Engineer

CLERA; München; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. seeks a backend engineer to help build a business-focused AI platform in a hybrid Munich setting. You will shape platform foundations to make AI integrations reliable, performant, and operable in production.

You will implement real-time data processing, route streaming responses and model requests across providers with fallback and cost management, and monitor latency, costs, and errors to prevent reliability issues.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend engineering experience with production TypeScript.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong system design skills and ability to reason about latency, cost, and performance.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching.
• Experience improving platform reliability under production load, including observability and root-cause analysis.
• Experience routing language model requests across providers, incl. fallback and cost logic.
• CI/CD, safe deployment practices, and secure permissions; frontend exposure helpful.

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate AI product capabilities processing data from external sources in real time.
• Route streaming responses and model requests across providers with fallback and cost logic.
• Monitor latency, costs, and error rates; proactively address reliability or performance issues.
• Make architectural decisions to improve system quality while keeping solutions simple.
• Instrument services, investigate production issues, and implement root-cause fixes.

Skills

Backend engineering

TypeScript

System design

Performance optimization

Observability

Incident follow-up

Frontend familiarity

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

APIs

Queues

Caching

Job description

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.