Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will innovate the storage infrastructure by working with AWS, Terraform, and modern programming languages like TypeScript and Go while implementing service optimizations.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Senior Software Engineer focused on content storage infrastructure domain you will be responsible for innovating and maintaining Contentful's underlying storage infrastructure and adjacent services.
- You will work on the very foundation of Contentful that our teams build on top of, but also have the opportunity to directly impact our customers' experience with scalability and performance features.
- You'll join a team of thoughtful, collaborative engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and work closely with teams across domains.
- You'll further design and develop our content storage infrastructure, which is foundational to the billions of requests we are serving today.
- You'll work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
- You'll collaborate closely with teams in the content storage and delivery domains.
- You'll develop and maintain services written in Typescript and Go.
- You'll help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of relational database engines (preferably PostgreSQL).
- Thorough AWS knowledge across core services: RDS, S3, Lambda, SNS/SQS.
- Terraform and Kubernetes expertise.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (TypeScript, Go).
- Problem-Solving Skills: Natural problem-solver who brings forward ideas leading to practical solutions and product growth.
- Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Adaptability: Ability to organize and prioritize competing workloads in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required).
- A collaborative mindset: you're 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.
Experience
- Proven experience in software development and systems engineering experience.
- Kafka experience is a plus.
- Erfahrung mit Observability-Stacks (Metriken, Logs, Tracing) und Tools wie Splunk und DataDog.
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What we offer
- 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.
- Comprehensive healthcare package including health, dental, and vision coverage, 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 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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Contentful GmbH
Contentful is the essential platform for creating digital experiences for world-renowned brands. Our content infrastructure provides a powerful API that lets you manage, integrate, and deliver content to any device or service. Developers and content creators can work on digital products simultaneously and edit content, so teams can ship faster.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Founding year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
