Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (all genders)

Overview

Join Lio, a rapidly expanding European enterprise AI startup, as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in Munich. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the CTO to develop and scale the core infrastructure that supports advanced AI workloads in procurement, ensuring high performance and reliability across global enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with the CTO to architect and scale Lio's infrastructure platform.
• Design, implement, and operate robust cloud infrastructure tailored for production-level AI workloads.
• Manage global platform scaling through multi-region deployments and build systems for high availability.
• Enhance database performance for agentic AI tasks, including Vector Search, Hybrid RAG, MCP, and efficient query processing.
• Optimize backend performance metrics such as latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Develop comprehensive observability tools, define SLOs, and establish alerting and incident response workflows.
• Automate infrastructure, deployments, and developer operations to support rapid growth.
• Work closely with product engineering teams to create scalable, maintainable systems.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience managing production workloads on major cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Python programming with a focus on backend service optimization.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable system architectures.
• Experience with monitoring, observability frameworks, and incident management strategies.
• Skilled in optimizing large-scale databases; experience with MongoDB is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Strong enthusiasm for automation, infrastructure development, and tackling complex scaling challenges.

Why Join Lio?

• Direct involvement with the CTO on pivotal infrastructure decisions that define the company's future.
• Opportunity to build foundational technology for a leading enterprise AI organization in Europe.
• Engage with challenging problems related to global scaling, reliability, and agentic AI infrastructures.
• Competitive pay structure combined with meaningful equity participation.
• Work onsite at the Munich headquarters, fostering close team collaboration every day.