Staff Software Engineer - Analytics (f/m/d) at Contentful

Contentful is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Analytics to lead the next stage of their evolving analytics product. The successful candidate will be a technical leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, charting new paths and tackling complex challenges. This role involves refining system architectures, ensuring platform scalability, and maintaining a clear vision for the product's future.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end-to-end architecture of our analytics platform.
• Mentor engineers
• Partner with senior leadership, product managers, and customers to shape the product roadmap
• Provide hands-on guidance to tackle bottlenecks, resolve technical challenges, and contribute high-quality code and architectural artifacts
• Design and optimize data pipelines using modern cloud-native tools
• Collaborate with colleagues to deploy and operate statistical and machine learning models in production

Requirements:

• Extensive experience building and scaling high-throughput, data-intensive, customer-facing systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What Contentful offers:

• Stock Options
• Comprehensive healthcare package
• Fertility and family building benefits
• Paid time off
• Company paid parental leave
• Personal annual education budget
• Virtual and in-person events
• Annual wellbeing stipend
• Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees