Staff Backend Engineer, Platform
This listing is for a Staff Backend Engineer, Platform role at Zeit Ai, in Munich, Germany. It is listed as a full-time, staff/principal-level position.
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This listing is for a Staff Backend Engineer, Platform role at Zeit Ai, in Munich, Germany. It is listed as a full-time, staff/principal-level position.
Skills and tools named in the text include TypeScript, React, Snowflake, Databricks, Docker and B2B.
No salary is given in this listing, so check the official pay figures in the DGJ Insight section below where they exist.
Benefits mentioned in the advert: bonus.
The advert does not mention visa sponsorship. If you would move to Germany for this job, check the official work permit route first (DGJ Insight lists it where we have it).
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Arbeitnow on Nov 11, 2026.
- Employer
- Zeit Ai
- Location
- Munich, Germany
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level (from the title)
- staff/principal-level
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer
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- Nov 11, 2026 on Arbeitnow
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Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
UN living-cost index for Munich (ICSC post adjustment 53.8), as of 1 Oct 2026.
Source: ICSC post adjustment classifications (icsc.un.org)
- EU Blue Card: Recognised degree and a job offer above the salary threshold
- Skilled worker visa (Fachkräfte): Recognised qualification and a job offer
- Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte): Points-based job search for up to one year
Official routes: Make it in Germany (Federal Government portal)
About the role
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01Opportunity
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
02What 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
03What 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
04Nice to have
experience at a data platform or warehouse company (Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare or similar)
networking depth: proxies, VPN, routing
05Location
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
06Tech 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
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