Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

$205,000 - $205,000/Yr

Personio - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - New York, NY

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.