Senior Product Engineer, deepset

• If you enjoy solving complex challenges with real impact, this role’s for you
• 5+ years of backend development experience, ideally in Python
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, SQL databases, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud services
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform or Crossplane)
• Proven ability to write clean, testable, observable, and maintainable code
• Skilled at fast troubleshooting in high-pressure, cross-functional settings
• Comfortable dealing with customer-facing production issues
• Proactive, collaborative, and aligned with team-wide decisions

Desirable

• We’re hiring a Senior Product Engineer (Backend) to help scale the deepset AI Platform, our LLM-powered enterprise product
• You’ll own features end to end, build systems that process millions of documents, and contribute to our open-source framework, Haystack
• Design and build a scalable AI platform that helps users solve real business problems with LLMs
• Develop infrastructure to support thousands of LLM applications, processing millions of documents and handling 100s of user requests per second
• Own backend features end to end—from architecture and CI/CD to testing, monitoring, and customer feedback
• Collaborate with the Open Source team to improve and contribute to Haystack
• Partner with the infrastructure team on performance, observability, and debugging
• Help resolve high-priority production issues with customer-facing impact
• Improve reliability by maintaining strong debugging tools and processes
• Mentor other engineers and support their technical growth