Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d)
Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d)
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About the Opportunity
Contentful operates highly scalable high throughput cloud infrastructure that enables our products to deliver reliable value to our customers.
Were looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) who cares deeply about building and operating robust secure and scalable infrastructure. Youll help shape the backbone that supports hundreds of billions of requests per month working in an engaging environment and tackling various challenges.
This is not just about maintaining systems - its about improving them thoughtfully. Youll work in a team that values short fast iterations while always keeping long-term strategy in mind. We are focused on solving real problems and delivering value to both internal and external customers.
Youll join a team of thoughtful collaborative engineers who support each other share knowledge freely and work closely with product teams. If youre someone who thrives on responsibility takes pride in enabling high performance infrastructure - this might be the right place for you.
What to Expect
- Youll design build and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available secure and scalable - serving billions requests per month
- Youll work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
- Youll deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully.
- You will work Edge and Serverless technologies to deploy a globally distributed infrastructure.
- Youll collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements
- Youll work to improve observability at scale
- Youll help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems.
- Youll be involved in incident response postmortems
What You Need to Be Successful
- 3 years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments
- Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC ALB EKS EC2 S3 Lambda Route53 RDS ElastiCache SNS/SQS etc.
- Experience working with Serverless technologies like Fastly Compute AWS Lambda and/or Cloudflare Workers
- Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning
- Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS) including workload tuning autoscaling and troubleshooting under load
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred)
- Understanding of networking concepts: routing DNS load balancing
- Familiarity with CDN/Edge systems and how they interact with backend systems
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge Network Compute and Storage layers
- Experience with observability stacks (metrics logs tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic
- Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO SLA etc.
- Excellent English communication skills verbal and written (German not required).
- A collaborative mindset: youre helpful respectful and enjoy sharing knowledge
- Ability to context switch work through ambiguity and contribute across multiple workstreams
- You lead by example mentor others and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement
Whats In it For You
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days education days compassion days for loss and volunteer days
- Time off 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 in-person 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 phone/internet 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 a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities Contentful enables dynamic personalization automated content delivery and real-time experimentation powering next-generation digital experiences across brands regions and channels for more than 4200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver San Francisco London New York and distributed worldwide.
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 we 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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Employment Type
Full Time
