Staff Engineer

The job at a glance
 

Join our team and youll be responsible for providing technical leadership for our Data Platform team defining technical direction and driving architectural decisions across data platform and infrastructure domains.

Working in the Data Platform department you will build scalable reliable and well-governed data platform capabilities that support analytics AI and business-critical products while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.

This is so important to us. By joining our team you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform driving decisions across data platform and infrastructure domains
• Establish engineering standards best practices and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical direction
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality testing observability reliability and operational practices
• Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges improving decision-making and contributing to planning and risk management
• Mentor engineers grow senior technical capabilities and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation

Qualifications :

Your skills and qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer Principal Engineer or in an equivalent senior individual contributor leadership role
• Strong background in data platforms distributed systems and cloud-native architectures with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders
• Solid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS Terraform Kafka/MSK Airflow Glue or Spark and building scalable data solutions
• Experience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures Iceberg or similar table formats as well as batch and streaming processing
• Knowledge of data quality governance cataloguing and observability tools (e.g. Datadog) with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus

Additional Information :

Your benefits

Were a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• Premium medical and dental care
• Life insurance
• Flex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport vouchers tickets etc.)
• Employee Referral Program
• Hackathons Knowledge Sharing Hours In-house projects
• Tech and sport communities
• Events and integration parties
• Charity initiatives 2 extra volunteer days
• English/German classes
• Game room and chillout zone

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company so we want to recruit develop and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background gender identity sexual orientation disability status ethnicity belief age family or parental status and any other characteristic.

Remote Work :

No