Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (all genders)

Lio; München; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site Munich office

Job summary

Lio is building the AI workforce for procurement. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will directly work with our CTO to architect and scale the infrastructure behind enterprise AI.

You will design reliable cloud systems, enable multi-region deployments, and optimize databases for high‑performing agentic AI workloads. Join a fast-growing startup focused on reliability, performance, and scalable systems for global enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong Python skills and backend optimization experience.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management.
• Experience optimizing databases at scale; MongoDB a plus.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Passion for automation and solving scaling challenges.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CTO on architecture and scaling of Lio's infrastructure.
• Design and operate reliable cloud infrastructure for production AI workloads.
• Scale platform globally with multi-region deployments and high-availability architectures.
• Optimize databases for agentic AI workloads and high-performance queries.
• Improve backend performance, latency, and resource efficiency.
• Build observability, SLOs, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Automate deployments, infrastructure, and developer workflows.
• Partner with product engineering teams to build scalable systems.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Monitoring/observability

Database optimization

GitHub Actions

MongoDB

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Build and scale the infrastructure behind enterprise AI.

At Lio, we're building the AI workforce for procurement. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll work directly with our CTO to build the infrastructure that powers one of Europe's fastest-growing enterprise AI startups. From scaling our platform across regions to optimizing databases for agentic AI, you'll help shape the foundation that enables Lio to serve global enterprise customers with exceptional performance and reliability.

What you'll do

• Work directly with our CTO on the architecture and scaling of Lio's infrastructure

• Design and operate highly reliable cloud infrastructure for production AI workloads

• Scale our platform globally with multi-region deployments and high-availability architectures

• Optimize databases for agentic AI workloads, including Vector Search, Hybrid RAG, MCP, and high-performance query execution

• Improve backend performance, latency, throughput, and resource efficiency

• Build observability, SLOs, alerting, and incident response processes

• Automate deployments, infrastructure, and developer workflows

• Partner closely with product engineering teams to build systems that scale with rapid growth

What we're looking for

• Experience operating production workloads on a major cloud platform

• Strong Python skills and experience optimizing backend services

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable architectures

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management

• Experience optimizing databases at scale (MongoDB is a plus)

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

• Passion for automation, infrastructure, and solving complex scaling challenges

Why Lio?

Work directly with our CTO on company-defining infrastructure decisions. Build the foundation for one of Europe's fastest-growing enterprise AI companies. Solve challenging problems around global scaling, reliability, and agentic AI infrastructure. Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and exceptional teammates. 100% on-site in our Munich office, where we build together every day