Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• 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'll need

• 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
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Typescript, Go)
• Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and DataDog
• Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)
• You lead by example, mentor others, and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement

Nice to have

• Kafka experience is a plus

What they offer

• 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% for dependents
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick, education, compassion, and volunteer days
• Personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Annual wellbeing stipend and monthly communication phone/internet stipend