Staff Backend Engineer, Platform

Zeit Ai·Munich

In short

→Desarrollar y escalar una plataforma backend multi-tenant con Postgres bajo carga impredecible.
→Gestionar entornos seguros para agentes (sandbox con Docker) y conectividad a redes de clientes mediante SOCKS5.
→Impacto directo en el crecimiento de la empresa: tu trabajo define la velocidad de expansión.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia previa construyendo y escalando plataformas de datos multi-tenant en startups B2B.
✓Conocimiento profundo de Postgres: planes de consulta, bloqueos, I/O, caché, replicación, sharding.
✓Capacidad para manejar carga de trabajo impulsada por agentes (hasta 30 sincronizaciones por usuario).
✓Experiencia con Docker, gestión de procesos, proxies y enrutamiento de red (SOCKS5, WebSockets).
✓Capacidad para arquitectar y construir sistemas desde cero con enfoque práctico, sin sobreingeniería.
✓Inglés C1 (requisito obligatorio), alemán como plus.

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Opportunity 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 we are growing fast and will be onboarding multiple enterprise customers a week. 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 English C1, German a plus Nice to have experience at a data platform or warehouse company (Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare or similar) networking depth: proxies, VPN, routing Location preferred: Munich, on-site. We support relocation within Europe already in London? We can make that work. We have people here and are opening a small office, and we'd expect regular Munich travel. In-person culture is important to us Tech stack TypeScript end to end. Bun, tRPC, Postgres, Supabase. React frontend (Mantine, TanStack Query). Docker, job/process management, VPN/routing, agentic frameworks Compensation: €95K – €270K • Offers Equity • €5k referral bonus • total comp €95K – €270K • Offers Equity • €5k referral bonus Find more English Speaking Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow

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