Senior Platform Engineer
- Salary
- €60,000 - €90,000
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- On-site · Munich
- Visa
- Not offered
Open. First seen 2 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join an AI product engineering team building a platform that connects data sources and supports real-time workflows. You will shape the platform foundations, helping keep systems reliable, performant, and straightforward to operate as they scale.
What You'll Do
- Integrate AI products that process data from external sources and multiple systems in real time.
- Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, with fallback and cost controls.
- Monitor latency, costs, and error rates, then address issues proactively before they degrade the experience.
- Make architectural decisions that balance system quality with simple, maintainable designs.
- Build application code alongside platform and operational work, and investigate production issues through instrumentation and root-cause analysis.
What We're Looking For
- At least 3 years of production backend engineering experience, including substantial TypeScript experience and ownership of production systems.
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching.
- Strong system design skills and the ability to reason about performance, latency, reliability, and cost trade-offs.
- Experience improving platform reliability and performance under production load, and building observability to diagnose complex systems.
- Experience with streaming responses or language model request routing across providers is valuable.
- Comfort contributing to frontend code when needed, and experience with CI/CD, safe deployments, and incident follow-up is beneficial.
Compensation & Benefits
Annual base salary: €60,000 to €90,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Hybrid work arrangement, based in Munich, Germany.
What this role asks for
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
Compared with Clera's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 200 open in Engineering. 134 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (96 of 200), TypeScript (87 of 200), Python (81 of 200), React (75 of 200), Machine Learning (50 of 200), PostgreSQL (38 of 200), Supabase (35 of 200)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Data Scientist posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Data Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Product & Brand Designer posted Nov 2
- Senior Product Engineer posted Nov 2
- AI Infrastructure / Product Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, Voice AI / Backend posted Nov 2
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 2
- Legal Engineer posted Nov 2
- GTM Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Engineering Lead posted Nov 2
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 2
- Backend Engineer posted Nov 2
- Robotics Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Nov 2
- Applied AI Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Technical Sales / Business Development Manager posted Nov 1
- Robot Learning Engineer posted Nov 1
- QA Engineer posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- AI-Native Founding Chief of Staff posted Nov 1
- Founding DevOps Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- AI-Native Founding GTM Lead posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Technical Strategist posted Oct 31
- Member of Technical Staff, Agents posted Oct 31
- Mid-Level AI Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 31
- Founding Applied AI Engineer posted Oct 31
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Agent Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 31
- Product Engineer posted Oct 31
- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 31
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 31
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 31
- Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) posted Oct 31
- GTM Associate, RL & Physical AI posted Oct 31
- Backend / Systems Engineer, Agent Infrastructure posted Oct 31
- Product Engineer (Consumer, Design-Heavy) posted Oct 31
- Senior Product Manager, SMB Platform posted Oct 31
- Senior Product Manager, Banking posted Oct 31
- Mid-Level Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform posted Oct 31
- Senior Robotics Software Engineer posted Oct 31
- Founding Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 30
- Founding Technical Partnerships Lead posted Oct 30
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Product Designer posted Oct 30
- Technical Product Engineer/Manager posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 30
- Founding Backend Engineer posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer (Full Stack) posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 30
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer, Foundation posted Oct 30
- Senior Mechanical Engineer posted Oct 30
- Test Engineer, R&D posted Oct 30
- Mid-Level Product Engineer posted Oct 30
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 30
- Product Engineer (Software Engineer) posted Oct 30
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 30
- Founding Member of Technical Staff, AI posted Oct 30
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Talent AI Operator posted Oct 29
- Senior Android Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- GTM Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Platform Engineer, Biotech posted Oct 29
- Technical Writer posted Oct 29
- Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer, Europe to San Francisco posted Oct 29
- Principal AI Architect posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI) posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Full-Stack Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 29
- Principal Robotics Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls posted Oct 29
- Senior Optical Engineer, R&D posted Oct 29
- Senior ML Engineer, Perception posted Oct 29
- Principal Mechanical Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 29
- Computer Vision & Robotics Intern posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer, Agents posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer, Environments + Data posted Oct 28
- Strategy & Operations, Product Growth posted Oct 28
- Backend Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Data Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure posted Oct 28
- Senior Integrations Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 28
- Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Data Engineer, Pricing and Comps posted Oct 28
- Technical Program Manager posted Oct 28
- Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization posted Oct 28
- Research Engineer, QC Automation posted Oct 28
- Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning posted Oct 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 28
- Research Engineer, Benchmarks posted Oct 28
- Research Engineer, Synthetic Data posted Oct 28
- GTM Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Research Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding ML Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection) posted Oct 28
- Senior Robotic Systems Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Design Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 27
- Founding Hardware Engineer posted Oct 27
- Staff Engineer, Agentic AI posted Oct 27
- Forward Deployment Engineer posted Oct 27
- US Founding Engineer posted Oct 27
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 27
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 27
- Lead Product Designer posted Oct 27
- Founding Engineer, AI/ML posted Oct 27
- Product Engineer posted Oct 27
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 27
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 27
- GTM Engineer posted Aug 10
- Founding AI Engineer posted Aug 5
- Senior Product Manager, Growth posted Aug 1
- Technical Product Marketing Manager, Mechanical Engineering posted Aug 1
- Pricing Architect posted Aug 1
- Founding Design Engineer posted Aug 1
- Founding Full Stack Engineer posted Aug 1
- Founding AI Engineer posted Aug 1
- Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 1
- Founding AI Engineer posted Aug 1
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Jul 18
- Founding Engineer: Agent Infrastructure posted Jun 7
- Frontend Engineer posted Jun 3
- Head of Engineering posted Jun 3
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer - Full Stack posted Jun 3
- Product Engineer (Software Engineer) posted Jun 3
- Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Senior Android Software Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Software Engineer posted Jun 3
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform) posted Jun 3
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer) posted Jun 3
- Software Engineer - Full Stack posted Jun 3
- Backend-Leaning Product Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer Intern posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Full Stack Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- Frontend Engineer - Cluster OS Platform posted Jun 3
- Medical AI Researcher posted Jun 3
- Staff Engineer - Agentic AI posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 3
- AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 3
- Member of Technical Staff posted Jun 3
- Founding Product Engineer posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) posted Jun 3
- AI Engineer (Mid-Level) posted Jun 3
- Applied AI Engineer (Matching & Search) posted Jun 3
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted May 31
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Member of Technical Staff / Fullstack Engineer posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer – SF Hackerhouse (Visa sponsored; $3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
- Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed) posted Mar 23
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From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted once since 2 October 2026: a posting for this role in Munich was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 2 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 25 October 2026 – closed 1 November 2026
- 10 October 2026 – closed 28 October 2026
- 2 October 2026 – closed 28 October 2026
- 2 October 2026 – closed 28 October 2026
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