Platform Engineer

Job description

Referral bonus: If you know someone exceptional feel free to connect us via LinkedIn (Dennis Agidigbi), if we end up hiring them for a full-time role, you'll receive 10,000€. 🌍 About Zauber After co-founding and scaling Forto to over $600M in funding, I took a step back to reflect on what’s still broken in global logistics. The answer was clear: it’s still a human-first, spreadsheet-heavy industry, full of repetitive processes and broken system interoperability. With the rise of AI agents, we now have the tools to rethink that from the ground up. Zauber builds autonomous agents for the global logistics industry, AI workers that handle operational tasks, talk to systems and humans alike, and get better every day. 🚢 We're already live with global logistics leaders in Europe and Asia 💰 Backed by P9 - one of Europe's top early-stage funds 📈 Growing fast and hiring exceptional engineers to join early Now we are looking for an exceptional Platform Engineer to help us define and build the next generation of AI-powered logistics systems. 🧠 What You'll Do You will build the infrastructure that our AI agents run on. We've made pragmatic early tooling choices for speed, and as we scale, some will hold and some won't. We need someone who understands the distributed systems principles underneath modern tooling, and can make the right call on when to keep things simple and when to reach for something heavier. This is a foundational role, and you'll design the systems the rest of the team builds on. • Build and operate the runtime infrastructure that powers our AI agents in production, the systems that customers depend on • Design for concurrency and failure, including queuing, retries, backpressure, and idempotency, so agent workflows stay reliable under real-world load • Own production reliability: latency budgets, error budgets, capacity planning, and incident response • Instrument the stack with tracing, structured logging, and alerting so problems surface before users notice them • Own the deployment pipeline end-to-end: CI/CD, preview and staging environments, and the path from local dev to production • Build internal tooling and abstractions that let the product team ship faster without worrying about infrastructure 👤 You Might Be a Fit If You... • Have experience owning infrastructure end-to-end at a startup, where you picked the tools and lived with the con…