Zeit Ai
Staff Backend Engineer, Platform
Munich. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own the platform and scope the architecture. You will scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load and manage the sandbox layer using Docker containers.
What you will do
- Scale a multi-tenant Postgres under unpredictable load
- Perform query and I/O optimisation, read/write separation, and horizontal scaling
- Make agent-driven workloads survivable
- Manage the sandbox layer using Docker containers
- Own connectivity into customer networks
- Scope the architecture and build it
Required qualifications
- 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
- Strong TypeScript
- English C1
Nice to have
- German
- Experience at a data platform or warehouse company (Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare or similar)
- Networking depth: proxies, VPN, routing
About the company
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.