Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Contentful as a technical leader to spearhead the evolution of our Analytics product. You will define and maintain the architecture of our analytics platform, mentor engineers, and collaborate with senior leadership and customers. This hands-on role requires extensive experience in building and scaling high-throughput, data-intensive systems. You will leverage your expertise in TypeScript, cloud-native tools, and data engineering to design and optimize data pipelines and APIs. The position offers a chance to make a lasting impact on a growing product and contribute to a collaborative, innovative environment. Contentful provides a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, healthcare, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building and scaling high-throughput, data-intensive, customer-facing systems with a strong focus on performance and reliability
• Demonstrated ability to craft end-to-end system architectures and oversee their implementation, including designing APIs and protocols for high-traffic applications
• Strong coding skills and commercial experience with server-side TypeScript
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously and propose innovative solutions
• Strong collaboration and customer-centric 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 non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end-to-end 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 decision-making
• 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 real-world needs
• Provide hands-on guidance to tackle bottlenecks, resolve technical challenges, and contribute high-quality code and architectural artifacts, setting and maintaining best practices to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient solutions
• Design and optimize data pipelines using modern cloud-native tools (e.g., GCP BigQuery, PubSub, Dataflow) and implement APIs for high-traffic, customer-facing 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 long-term maintainability

Preferred Qualifications

• Having Experience with data related languages like SQL or Python is an advantage
• Familiarity with modern cloud-native tools and data engineering frameworks; experience with GCP and Cloudflare Workers is nice to have

Benefits

• Full-time 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
• 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 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 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