Staff Software Engineer - Analytics fmd

About the Opportunity

Are you ready to lead the next stage of an evolving Analytics product at Contentful Were looking for a technical leader with an entrepreneurial spirit and a pioneering mindset to chart new paths tackle complex challenges and guide our engineering team toward productmarket fit. Youll draw on your technical leadership architectural insights and interest in analytics to refine system architectures and ensure our platform scales to meet enterprise demands. As a handson leader youll work closely with our CTO EVP and other senior engineers engaging directly with customers collaborating with crossfunctional teams and mentoring those around youall while maintaining a clear vision for the products future. If youre driven by building products that truly resonate with users and setting the pace for innovation this role offers you the chance to make a lasting impact.

***This role is based in Berlin Germany. We welcome applications from candidatesopen to relocating. Relocation support is available for eligible candidates.***

What to expect

• Define and maintain the endtoend architecture of our analytics platform ensuring seamless integration through SDKs event ingestion APIs data pipelines and query layers with a focus on scalability resilience and performance to handle billions of events daily.
• Mentor engineers to understand how their work fits into the bigger picture fostering a collaborative environment that encourages diverse perspectives and informed technical decisionmaking.
• Partner with senior leadership product managers and customers to shape the product roadmap aligning technical feasibility with business goals and participating in customer discussions to ensure the platform addresses realworld needs.
• Provide handson guidance to tackle bottlenecks resolve technical challenges and contribute highquality code and architectural artifacts setting and maintaining best practices to deliver reliable scalable and efficient solutions.
• Design and optimize data pipelines using modern cloudnative tools (e.g. GCP BigQuery PubSub Dataflow) and implement APIs for hightraffic customerfacing data products using TypeScript and serverless architectures.
• Collaborate with colleagues to deploy and operate statistical and machine learning models in production ensuring reliability scalability and longterm maintainability.

What you need to be successful

• Extensive experience building and scaling highthroughput dataintensive customerfacing systems with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to craft endtoend system architectures and oversee their implementation including designing APIs and protocols for hightraffic applications.
• Strong coding skills and commercial experience with serverside TypeScript. Having Experience with data related languages like SQL or Python is an advantage.
• Familiarity with modern cloudnative tools and data engineering frameworks; experience with GCP and Cloudflare Workers is nice to have.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously and propose innovative solutions.
• Strong collaboration and customercentric skills with a proven ability to build consensus across teams engage with clients to understand their challenges and incorporate their feedback into technical solutions.
• Proven success in B2B enterprise product environments delivering scalable secure and reliable solutions to demanding customers.
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written) capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Whats in it for You

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Fulltime employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100 of monthly health premiums for employees and 85 of costs for your dependents.
• Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value WorkLife balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days compassion days for loss education days and volunteer days
• Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and inperson events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
• A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

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Who are we

Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organizations digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform Contentful Studio and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration speed and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands regions and channels for organizations around the world including nearly 30 of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nationscontribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

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