Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure (f/m/d)

About the Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on content storage infrastructure domain you will be responsible for innovating and maintaining Contentful’s underlying storage infrastructure and adjacent services. You will work on the very foundation of Contentful that our teams build on top of, but also have the opportunity to directly impact our customers’ experience with scalability and performance features.

You’ll join a team of thoughtful, collaborative engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and work closely with teams across domains. If you’re someone who thrives on responsibility and takes pride in building highly scalable and reliable systems that enable others - this might be the right place for you.

The team is placed in the infrastructure group.

What to expect?

You’ll further design and develop our content storage infrastructure is foundational to the billions of requests we are serving today

You’ll work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices

You’ll collaborate closely with teams in the content storage and delivery domains

You’ll develop and maintain services written in Typescript and Go

You’ll help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems.

What you need to be successful?

Proven experience in software development and systems engineering experience

Strong understanding of relational database engines (preferably PostgreSQL)

Thorough AWS knowledge across core services: RDS, S3, Lamda, SNS/SQS

Terraform and Kubernetes expertise

Kafka experience is a plus

Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Typescript, Go)

Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and DataDog

Problem-Solving Skills: Natural problem-solver who brings forward ideas leading to practical solutions and product growth.

Collaborative Mindset: Ability to work effectively in a team environment

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