Senior Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. in Munich, Germany, is seeking a Backend Engineer to join an AI product engineering team building a platform connecting data sources and supporting real-time workflows.

You will shape platform foundations, ensuring reliability, performance and maintainability as the system scales, with responsibilities spanning backend and limited frontend work, CI/CD, and incident follow-up. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary and visa considerations are not provided.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of production backend engineering experience with TypeScript.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus PostgreSQL, APIs, queues and caching.
• Strong system design skills focusing on performance, latency, reliability and cost trade-offs.
• Experience building observability and improving platform reliability under load.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, safe deployments and incident follow-up is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI products processing data from external sources in real time.
• Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers with fallbacks and cost controls.
• Monitor latency, costs, and error rates, addressing issues proactively.
• Make architectural decisions balancing quality with simple, maintainable designs.
• Contribute to application code; investigate production issues via instrumentation and root-cause analysis.

Skills

TypeScript

Backend engineering

System design

Observability

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

APIs

Queues

Caching

Job description

About the Role

Join an AI product engineering team building a platform that connects data sources and supports real-time workflows. You will shape the platform foundations, helping keep systems reliable, performant, and straightforward to operate as they scale.

What You'll Do

• Integrate AI products that process data from external sources and multiple systems in real time.
• Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, with fallback and cost controls.
• Monitor latency, costs, and error rates, then address issues proactively before they degrade the experience.
• Make architectural decisions that balance system quality with simple, maintainable designs.
• Build application code alongside platform and operational work, and investigate production issues through instrumentation and root-cause analysis.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of production backend engineering experience, including substantial TypeScript experience and ownership of production systems.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching.
• Strong system design skills and the ability to reason about performance, latency, reliability, and cost trade-offs.
• Experience improving platform reliability and performance under production load, and building observability to diagnose complex systems.
• Experience with streaming responses or language model request routing across providers is valuable.
• Comfort contributing to frontend code when needed, and experience with CI/CD, safe deployments, and incident follow-up is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual base salary: €60,000 to €90,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid work arrangement, based in Munich, Germany.