Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Infrastructure (f/m/d)
ContentfulBerlin, Germany
Posted March 27, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale.
Job Description
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.
Requirements
- 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, Lambda, 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
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Comprehensive healthcare package
- Fertility and family building benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Annual education budget
- Wellbeing stipend
- Communication phone/internet stipend
- Office equipment stipend