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Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
Personio - New York, NY
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
The Software Engineer position at Personio focuses on enhancing the data platform to empower engineers in building data-rich experiences. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering innovative solutions that improve developer experience and operational excellence. The engineer will work closely with product and engineering teams to create a reliable and scalable data platform, ensuring high-quality systems that meet the needs of internal teams and customers.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize and own technical solutions end-to-end.
- Organize effective groups of engineers to brainstorm, design, and deliver impactful work.
- Experiment and build platform solutions that improve the developer experience for all product teams.
- Manage the entire software lifecycle from building, testing, deploying, releasing, to monitoring across environments.
- Foster relationships with product teams to support platform-specific migrations.
- Teach engineers, especially new joiners, how to use tools through talks, workshops, and documentation.
- Manage technical debt and refactor existing solutions.
- Drive the platform forward with new ideas and strategies for quality, reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools, or distributed systems.
- Experience in designing, building, documenting, and distributing robust platform solutions end-to-end.
- Deep understanding of DevOps tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, Gitlab, DataDog, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in Kafka operations and building platform tools that utilize Kafka.
- Hands-on experience with database technologies like Debezium is a plus.
- Interest in development processes and practices, eager to optimize and automate them.
- Experience in prototype, build, deploy, and operate data streaming applications with Kafka Streams.
- Experience acting as a mentor or role model to other engineers.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading pair and mob programming sessions.
- Experience setting up and running technical brainstorming and solution design sessions.
Benefits
- Robust reward package including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
- 20 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
- 401(k) retirement account with a Personio match of up to 5%.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Two fully paid Impact Days for individual and company-wide initiatives.
- Family leave, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.
- Annual personal development budget for professional memberships, certifications, and conferences.
- Regular company and team events to foster connection.
