Staff Software Engineer – Analytics (f/m/d)

About the Opportunity

Are you ready to lead the next stage of an evolving Analytics product at Contentful? We’re looking for a technical leader with an entrepreneurial spirit and a pioneering mindset to chart new paths, tackle complex challenges, and guide our engineering team toward product-market fit. You’ll draw on your technical leadership, architectural insights, and interest in analytics to refine system architectures and ensure our platform scales to meet enterprise demands. As a hands-on leader, you’ll work closely with our CTO, EVP, and other senior engineers, engaging directly with customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring those around you—all while maintaining a clear vision for the product’s future. If you’re driven by building products that truly resonate with users and setting the pace for innovation, this role offers you the chance to make a lasting impact.

***This role is based in Berlin, Germany. We welcome applications from candidates open to relocating. Relocation support is available for eligible candidates.***

What to expect?

• 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.

What you need to be successful

• 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. 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.
• 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’s in it for You?

• 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 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, 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.

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Who are we?

Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

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