Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

This position is hybrid based in either Dublin or Munich locations.

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing, and delivering innovative and high-quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers.

The Data Platform team is on a mission to enable all Personio engineers to build data-rich experiences across Personio’s product. We are a rapidly growing, enablement-focused domain that strives to create secure, reusable, and extensible systems that accelerate the ability of our internal teams to create customer value, at scale.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Conceptualize and own technical solutions end-to-end. Organize effective groups of engineers to brainstorm, design, and deliver impactful work.
• Invest in experimenting and building platform solutions that improve the developer experience for all product teams.
• Your scope will include everything from how software components are built, tested, deployed, released, and monitored across all environments, from the local machine straight through to our production clusters.
• Foster relationships and work closely with product teams to support them through platform-specific migrations. Learn from and understand the challenges they face so that you can translate them into result-oriented solutions that help improve the reliability of the platform.
• Spend time teaching engineers (especially new joiners) how to use our tools, whether by giving internal talks, organizing internal onboarding workshops, or writing documentation and tutorials.
• Help your team manage technical debt, refactor existing solutions, and introduce and improve the team’s approach to principles and processes such as system architecture, design patterns, coding principles, and code review.
• Use your existing experience to help drive the platform forward with new ideas and strategies that help maintain the quality, reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the product and platform.

How you’ll go about it:

• Influence and strengthen team culture while identifying areas for improvement. Demonstrate technical excellence through hands-on involvement in projects and continuous learning.
• Maintain open and clear communication and foster a collaborative work environment with team members, stakeholders, and management.
• Ensure that technical documentation is comprehensive and up-to-date.
• Uphold high coding standards and participate in code reviews. Continuously drive innovation and improvements.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools, or distributed systems.
• Experience designing, building, documenting, and distributing robust and delightful platform solutions end-to-end.
• Deep understanding and interest in DevOps tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, Gitlab, DataDog, Sentry, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Kafka operations and building platform tools that utilize Kafka.
• Experience in prototype, build, deploy, and operate data streaming applications with technology like Kafka Streams.
• Experience acting as a mentor or role model to other engineers is a plus.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Our Benefits

• Receive a robust reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
• Enjoy 20 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
• Invest in your future with a 401(k) retirement account and a Personio match of up to 5%.
• Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for yourself and your family.
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days.
• Receive family leave, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares.
• Grow your skills with an annual personal development budget.
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events.

About Us

Bring your best. Make your mark. We’re using technology to revolutionize the way HR operates so that we can transform the way millions of people experience work every day. We move fast, challenge the status quo, and support our people as they shape their careers.

With over 13,000 customers and a team of 2,000 in eight offices around the world, now is the perfect time to join! We believe in hiring driven people who want to make an impact. So bring your best, and let’s build the future of HR technology together.