Staff Software Engineer - Analytics fmd

Are you ready to lead the next stage of an evolving Analytics product at Contentful Were 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 productmarket fit. Youll 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 handson leader youll work closely with our CTO EVP and other senior engineers engaging directly with customers collaborating with crossfunctional teams and mentoring those around youall while maintaining a clear vision for the products future. If youre 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.

1. Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define and drive the endtoend architecture of our analytics platform from ensuring seamless integration through our SDKs over event ingestion APIs to data pipelines and processing down to the query layer.

• Establish strategies for scalability resilience and performance optimization to reliably handle billions of events every day.

• Provide handson guidance in clearing bottlenecks and resolving challenging technical issues within data pipelines APIs and backend systems.

• Mentor and guide engineers to see how their work fits into the bigger picture fostering a collaborative environment that encourages diverse perspectives and supports informed technical decisionmaking.

2. Product & Vision Alignment

• Partner with senior leadership and product leaders to shape the product roadmap ensuring technical feasibility aligns with strategic business goals.

• Stay attuned to customer needs participating in discussions and calls to understand requirements and shape the platforms technical direction.

• Offer architectural insight that transcends individual components keeping the bigger picture in focus.

3. HandsOn Engineering & Implementation

• Collaborate closely with the engineering team to contribute code and architectural artifacts setting a high quality bar through shared best practices.

• Together with your colleagues design and optimize data pipelines using modern tools and frameworks (e.g. GCP BigQuery PubSub Dataflow Dataform).

• Work as a team to architect and implement APIs and protocols for hightraffic customerfacing data products using TypeScript leveraging modern cloudnative and serverless architectures.

• Collaboratively deploy and operate statistical and machine learning models in production ensuring reliability scalability and longterm maintainability.

1. Technical Expertise

• Extensive experience building and scaling dataintensive products ensuring system scalability and performance under highvolume workloads ideally handling billions of events daily.

• Demonstrated ability to craft endtoend system architectures and oversee their implementation.

• Strong coding skills and commercial experience with serverside TypeScript.

• Proven track record in designing APIs and protocols for hightraffic enterprisegrade applications.

• Cloudnative experience is a big plus our data stack is built on GCP and the Cloudflare Workers Platform.

• Familiarity with modern data engineering practices and frameworks.

2. Soft Skills & Leadership

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously and propose innovative solutions.

• Strong collaboration skills with the capacity to build consensus and alignment across different product lines and teams.

• Customercentric approach comfortable engaging with clients to understand their challenges and incorporate their feedback.

• Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written) capable of conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

3. Domain Experience

• Ideally you have several years of experience working with highthroughput customerfacing analytics or data platforms. This may include leading analytics providers largescale consumer or streaming platforms AdTech or observability vendors or highvolume eCommerce environments. Any setting where youve managed massive streams of event data and delivered timely insights will help you excel in this role.

• Proven success in B2B enterprise product environments delivering scalable and secure solutions to demanding customers.

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Fulltime 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 WorkLife 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 inperson 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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