# Staff Backend Engineer, Platform

[Zeit AI](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Zeit%20AI) · Munich · Posted yesterday

Principal

[Backend](https://gurify.com/jobs/backend)

[AI & ML](https://gurify.com/jobs/ai-ml)

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## Job description

### 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. The backend isn't ready yet, your impact will decide the speed at which we can grow

- load growth is compounding: more customers, multiple users per customer, many agent interactions per user and multiple agent artifacts (data pipelines, schedules, analyses) coming out of the interactions

- you own the platform

### 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

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