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Senior Data Engineer (f/m/d)

Senior Data Engineer role at Contentful in Berlin.
Contentful
Hybrid
On-Site
Germany
Undisclosed salary
Job Description
Contentful is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their core Data Platform team in Berlin. This role involves building and improving data products that drive decision-making across the company. The Senior Data Engineer will serve as a key connector between Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Platform & Data Engineering, contributing to dbt models, debugging data pipelines, and ensuring robust, scalable, and well-integrated data solutions. This position offers strong mentorship and growth support, working closely with senior engineers.

Role involves:
  • Designing and building trusted, well-modeled data products for analytics, reporting, and business operations
  • Owning and improving key pipelines (dbt, Airflow) with a focus on quality, usability, and uptime
  • Investigating and resolving issues in business-critical data workflows
  • Collaborating with analysts, product managers, and engineers to understand requirements and deliver usable data
  • Learning and applying software engineering best practices: testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and more
  • Participating in on-call rotation to support operational reliability of the platform

Requirements:
  • 2–5+ years of experience working with data—e.g., analytics engineering, BI, data analysis, or data engineering
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, SQL, and data quality principles
  • Exposure to Python and an interest in deepening technical skills (scripting, pipelines, automation)
  • Experience working with modern data tooling (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery)
  • Curiosity and problem-solving mindset—motivated by fixing things, not just building new ones
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and owning projects with support from a senior team

Contentful offers:
  • Stock Options
  • Fertility and family building benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Education budget
  • Virtual and in-person events
  • Wellbeing stipend
  • Communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
  • New hire office equipment stipend
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Contentful

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform empowering businesses to deliver engaging, personalized content at scale. It blends composability with native AI, enabling dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation. Catering to over 4,200 organizations globally, Contentful drives next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions and channels. The company fosters a diverse and inclusive environment with a global team of over 700 employees across hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, and New York, as well as a distributed workforce worldwide.

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