Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Contentsquare as a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer and lead challenging projects within our Platform & Infrastructure teams. You will be responsible for scaling our core platform, optimizing our database engine, and building a new data lake system. This role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with DevOps tooling, and a deep understanding of cloud computing (AWS). You will work with a distributed team across US West and Australian time zones. Contentsquare offers competitive benefits, including flexible work arrangements, generous paid time off, parental leave, wellbeing allowances, stock options, and employee resource groups.

Requirements

• A collaborative and intellectually curious approach to software development and infrastructure design
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in writing
• A track record of leading projects to success over many years (5-7+ years of experience), with deep experience in building data platforms at scale for both ad hoc analytical and batch processing workloads
• Experience with modern DevOps tooling, infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI pipelines, and package managers
• A strong understanding of cloud computing with 5+ years of working with AWS

Responsibilities

• Extend and scale the core platform that runs all of Contentsquare
• Remove bottlenecks in the event ingestion pipeline (Kafka / Scala)
• Optimize and extend the distributed database engine (Postgres / Singlestore)
• Build a new data lake system for batch querying
• Break up monolithic services into smaller, more manageable chunks
• Define more explicit API boundaries and object schemas across Contentsquare services
• Help de-risk the stack and add more 9s to availability
• Incorporate open source tooling
• Understand the codebase and debug issues

Preferred Qualifications

Deep knowledge of the full DevOps ecosystem

Benefits

• Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
• Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
• Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
• Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave
• Wellbeing and Home Office allowances
• A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
• Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
• We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts
• And more benefits tailored to each country