Senior Platform Engineer: Reproducible Compute & Release

ESQlabs GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Remuneration package

Regular in-person team gatherings

Career perspective

Job summary

ESQlabs GmbH in Germany seeks a senior platform/backend engineer to own the compute core, release pipeline, deployment into client environments, and the provenance behind every result. You will build services the AI layer runs on, handle per-client isolation, metering, and signed records, and drive secure, reproducible software in a regulated context.

You will design versioned APIs, participate in CI/CD, and collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to advance an open, certified scientific

Qualifications

• Five+ years of platform, infrastructure or backend engineering with ownership of a production system.
• Experience with reproducible builds, artifact hashing and hermetic builds.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes or similar orchestrators, monitoring and release management.
• Strong API design skills with contract-first thinking and versioning/deprecation practices.
• Security engineering for multi-tenant systems and awareness of regulated software risks.

Responsibilities

• Make the scientific compute core deterministic with pinned toolchains and content-addressed images.
• Build the services the AI layer runs on, including per-client isolation and usage metering.
• Expose the platform as a versioned API and ship reproducibility packages for external runs.
• Run the evaluation pipeline in CI: conformance, re-execution and regression tests.
• Own release engineering and operations: CI/CD, signed releases, installation qualification, and environment management.

Skills

Platform/backend engineering

Kubernetes

API design

Security engineering

Reproducible builds

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ESQlabs GmbH in Germany seeks a senior platform/backend engineer to own the compute core, release pipeline, deployment into client environments, and the provenance behind every result. You will build services the AI layer runs on, handle per-client isolation, metering, and signed records, and drive secure, reproducible software in a regulated context.

You will design versioned APIs, participate in CI/CD, and collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to advance an open, certified scientific