[Hiring] Product Engineering Tech Lead @deepset

Role Description

We are hiring a Product Engineering Tech Lead to own the layer that runs our customers' AI applications: serverless, durable, streaming execution, and the observability that proves it works. You sit where backend engineering, platform operations, and product meet. This is a builder role with a founder mindset, not a maintainer role.

What you will do

• Own the serverless execution platform, ensuring pipelines and agents run fast, reliably, and concurrently at enterprise scale.
• Architect the execution layer, including durability work needed to keep long-running agents alive.
• Own streaming and long-lived connections, managing how those connections behave under pressure.
• Lead the team and the architecture, setting technical direction and translating product strategy into robust systems.
• Make reliability provable through observability and metering, including tracing and alerting.
• Own on-call and incident response, closing the loop between what you build and what you operate.

Qualifications

• Builder and founder mindset with experience in starting and shipping projects.
• Experience building and operating systems on Kubernetes in production.
• Durable execution experience, including retries, failover, and durable state.
• Experience with serverless and function platforms at scale (e.g., Knative, KEDA).
• Familiarity with streaming and long-running workloads, such as server-sent events or websockets.
• Operator instinct for observability, alerting, and incident response.
• Ability to lead a team and connect strategy to robust architecture.
• Comfortable in Python and with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).

Nice to have

• Built Kubernetes operators or controllers, or automated deployments as a system.
• Taken a platform from zero to one to production grade ownership.
• Open source contribution or maintenance background.
• Exposure to B2B SaaS, LLM, or agent infrastructure.

Benefits

• Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice.
• 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave.
• Competitive salary & stock options for every team member.
• Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva.
• Annual learning & development budget.
• Monthly team socials & in-person meetups.
• Dog-friendly Berlin HQ.