Staff Backend Engineer — Scale a Multi-Tenant Data Platform

Zeit AI (YC S24); Greater London; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Office in Munich

Job summary

You will scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load, manage the sandbox layer with Docker, and own connectivity into customer networks. Strong TypeScript and deep database knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on, production code experience required.
• Built and scaled multi-tenant data platforms in a B2B startup.
• Strong Postgres/database knowledge with practical optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load.
• Make agent-driven workloads survivable and scalable.
• Manage the sandbox layer with Docker containers and budgets.
• Own connectivity into customer networks (SOCKS5 over WebSockets).
• Scope architecture and build it.

Skills

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Docker

Networking VPN/Routing

English (C1)

Tools

Docker

Job description

You will scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load, manage the sandbox layer with Docker, and own connectivity into customer networks. Strong TypeScript and deep database knowledge are essential.