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Zeit AI•Data Platform

Staff Backend Engineer, Platform

Location

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full Time

Experience

8-15 years

Compensation

€95K - €270K per year

Posted

6h ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This role involves scaling a multi-tenant Postgres database, managing agent-driven workloads, and overseeing the Docker sandbox layer. The Staff Backend Engineer will also own connectivity into customer networks and scope the architecture for rapid growth.

What you'll do

  • scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load: query and I/O optimisation, read/write separation, horizontal scaling

  • make agent-driven workloads survivable: one user can spin up 30 table syncs, some running hours, while others query large sources

  • manage the sandbox layer: Docker containers where agents run queries and reverse-engineer files, with compute and memory budgets

  • own connectivity into customer networks: SOCKS5 over WebSockets, authentication, routing

  • scope the architecture and build it

What we're looking for

  • staff or principal level, still hands-on, writing production code

  • built and scaled multi-tenant data platforms in a B2B startup or platform company before

  • deep Postgres or database knowledge: query plans, locking, I/O, caching, replication, sharding

  • understands startup pace and ownership without specs

  • pragmatic over ideal, wants to build foundations right without overengineering

  • strong TypeScript

Nice to have

  • experience at a data platform or warehouse company (Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare or similar)

  • networking depth: proxies, VPN, routing

Updated 6h ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Postgres • 1+ yrs
TypeScript • 1+ yrs
Docker • 1+ yrs
Multi-tenant Data Platforms • 1+ yrs
Query Optimization • 1+ yrs
Database Sharding • 1+ yrs
Networking • 1+ yrs
Startup Pace • 1+ yrs

Experience

8-15 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Engineering

Industries

Software & SaaS

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

€95K - €270K per year

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyEUR
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Employee Referral Bonus

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Work typeOnsite
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium • 6/10
physicalLow • 2/10
cognitiveHigh • 9/10
executionHigh • 9/10
creativityHigh • 8/10
uncertaintyHigh • 8/10
communicationMedium • 7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

Zeit AI

Team size

Growing team

Location

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

ZeitMind is an autonomous data engineer for mid-market businesses. Agents and people work the same company data: ingest, pipeline, clean, analyse, build operational apps

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Staff Backend Engineer, Platform

Munich, Bavaria, Germany • Full Time