Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure (f/m/d)
Contentful · Berlin, Germany · Engineering
About this role
Contentful is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Berlin, Germany. The posting calls out experience with TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Department
- Engineering
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Job description
from Contentful careersAbout 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