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title: 'Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (all genders) at Lio'
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# Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (all genders) at Lio

- **Company:** Lio
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lio/4f67e6d6-72ca-4248-a748-3bd8d3c769ea

## Job description

BUILD AND SCALE THE INFRASTRUCTURE BEHIND ENTERPRISE AI.

At Lio, we're building the AI workforce for procurement. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll work directly with our CTO to build the infrastructure that powers one of Europe's fastest-growing enterprise AI startups. From scaling our platform across regions to optimizing databases for agentic AI, you'll help shape the foundation that enables Lio to serve global enterprise customers with exceptional performance and reliability.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Work directly with our CTO on the architecture and scaling of Lio's infrastructure
- Design and operate highly reliable cloud infrastructure for production AI workloads
- Scale our platform globally with multi-region deployments and high-availability architectures
- Optimize databases for agentic AI workloads, including Vector Search, Hybrid RAG, MCP, and high-performance query execution
- Improve backend performance, latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
- Build observability, SLOs, alerting, and incident response processes
- Automate deployments, infrastructure, and developer workflows
- Partner closely with product engineering teams to build systems that scale with rapid growth

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Experience operating production workloads on a major cloud platform
- Strong Python skills and experience optimizing backend services
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable architectures
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management
- Experience optimizing databases at scale (MongoDB is a plus)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Passion for automation, infrastructure, and solving complex scaling challenges

WHY LIO?

Work directly with our CTO on company-defining infrastructure decisions. Build the foundation for one of Europe's fastest-growing enterprise AI companies. Solve challenging problems around global scaling, reliability, and agentic AI infrastructure. Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and exceptional teammates. 100% on-site in our Munich office, where we build together every day

## About Lio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lio builds the world's first multi-agent AI workforce for enterprise procurement, automating the entire purchasing process from request to delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Vladimir "Vladi" Keil (CEO), Lukas Heinzmann (CTO), Till Wagner (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise AI / Procurement Automation / Supply Chain Technology
- **Target customers**: Large global enterprises (150+ enterprise clients) — B2B, Enterprise
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make work faster, smarter, and more human through AI — transforming procurement from a bureaucratic bottleneck into a frictionless, strategic function.

## Products & Services
- **Lio Multi-Agent Procurement Platform**: An AI-driven system where specialized agents work in parallel to research vendors, negotiate terms, manage approvals, and track deliveries. Integrates with existing P2P/ERP systems. Available in five layers that customers can adopt incrementally: Operational Automation, Agent-Augmented Buying, and others. [lio.ai](https://lio.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $30.1M (Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead investor in Series A), Y Combinator (YC alum), Microsoft (Official Microsoft Partner)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 1,000,000+ users across 150+ enterprises in less than three years
  - 100% customer retention — not a single customer has churned
  - 428.6% headcount growth YoY (from ~16 to 87 employees)
  - Awarded BME Procurement Excellence Award (with REHAU) and DPW Growth Award
  - Average 10% additional cost savings for customers and 85% reduction in operational workload

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in multi-agent procurement**: World’s first multi-agent system purpose-built for procurement, not a generic automation tool.
- **Enterprise-grade security & compliance**: ISO 27001 certified, hosted on Microsoft Azure Europe, fully GDPR compliant — a critical moat for large enterprise adoption.
- **Deep integration ecosystem**: Official Microsoft Partner with secure integration into Microsoft architecture and existing P2P/ERP systems.
- **Proven ROI at scale**: >95% of procurement requests flow through standardized, compliant processes; customers achieve 10% cost savings and 85% workload reduction.
- **Zero churn**: 100% customer retention signals extreme product-market fit and stickiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Actively hiring for Head of US Sales, indicating a push into the North American market. Already has a presence in the US and UK.
- **Product depth**: Continuing to build out the five-layer platform to deepen automation and expand the scope of AI agents.
- **Talent scaling**: Rapidly growing headcount (87 employees, +428.6% YoY) across engineering, sales, implementation, and operations.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment**: 428.6% YoY headcount growth means significant ownership, impact, and career acceleration for early hires.
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees describe it as "a rare chance to build something that truly matters" alongside people who "raise your standards for the rest of your career."
- **Strong engineering culture**: Founded by a CTO with expertise in machine learning; building the world's first multi-agent procurement system.
- **Premier benefits package**: Top-notch Apple equipment, Employee Stock Options (SOPs), EGYM Wellpass, Mobility Allowance, Breakfast/Dinner/Shakes & Snacks provided.
- **Culture**: "Lions" — a culture of celebrating milestones with true team spirit. Values-driven environment (specific values not publicly detailed).
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid/office, but headquartered in Munich with roles listed across Germany, US, and UK. Likely hybrid given the collaborative startup environment.
- **Notable perks**: Employee Stock Options (SOPs), premium equipment, meals on-site, wellness pass.

## Sources
1. [lio.ai](https://lio.ai/)
2. [lio.ai/about-us](https://lio.ai/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://de.linkedin.com/company/lio-ai)
4. [Y Combinator Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lio)
5. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lio)

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