Platform & Reliability Engineer

We're hiring: Platform & Reliability Engineer— Berlin (Hybrid)

At Talonic, our promise is simple: ingest once, query forever. We capture an enterprise document once into a canonical field registry, then project it to any schema — no re-extraction, ever.

But permanence has an uptime number. We're hiring the first dedicated reliability engineer who owns it.

The mandate

You'll be our first reliability hire, the named owner who keeps the platform up, fast, and correct under load. Start as an IC with real autonomy, then build the reliability function the company grows into. The target is 99.9% uptime (an error budget of ~43 min/month). Defending that sliver and knowing when not to overspend on it is the task.

What you'll own:

Define reliability — SLOs, SLIs, and a published error-budget policy
AWS infrastructure observability, alerting, and on-call that catch problems before customers do.
Incident response + blameless post-mortems that change the architecture
Safe, boring deploys — fast rollback, a pipeline nobody fears (Fridays included)
Capacity planning for high-volume ingestion and our API surface
Reliability where it meets compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001 / 42001, HIPAA)

Who you are:

You've owned production — been paged at 3am and made the right call
You're calm when it's on fire — low ego, decisive under a Sev1
You're disciplined — post-mortem rigour, honest error budgets, no cowboy deploys
✨ Bonus: you build agentically. Our engineers ship with Claude Code — if that excites you rather than threatens you, let's talk.

Why Talonic:

Co-authors of DIN SPEC 91491 (with Fraunhofer IIS, Humboldt-Innovation & DIN e.V.) — we help define this category's rules
NVIDIA Inception member, backed by leading European deep-tech investors
Enterprise traction at the inflection point where the platform has to be genuinely unbreakable

The Process:

Intro with the founders. Meet the CEO and CTO: the mission, the seat, your questions. Bring a real Sev1 you’ve owned and walk us through it: the first ten minutes, the post-mortem, and what changed structurally afterwards.
Paid co-working session. Spend a paid day building alongside the team on a real problem from our roadmap, with our stack and the way we actually work.
Culture-fit meeting with the team. Meet the people you’d build with. Mutual fit, no trick questions.
References. Including the ones you didn’t put on the list.

The package:

Berlin, hybrid (CET ±2 for on-call)
€80,000–€90,000 base + meaningful VSOP equity
The reliability charter — yours to define, instrument, and grow
If you don't tick every box but you own the three non-negotiables, write to us anyway. Talonic is an equal-opportunity employer.