Contentful is looking to grow its marketplace and developer tooling, and needs a Staff Engineer to guide product development teams, provide strategic guidance, and build out these areas.
Requirements
- Deep engineering background including cloud architectures, containerization, and scalable APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to abstract complex AI technologies (LLMs, RAG, integrations) into usable, compliant, and extensible platform features.
- Experience embedding governance, compliance, and privacy (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, AI transparency requirements) within development practices.
- [Bonus] Experience in content management, digital experience platforms, or integrating AI/ML solutions into SaaS platforms.
- [Bonus] Experience with supporting tooling and libraries where developer experience is a focus.
Responsibilities
- Work with multiple teams on complex technical challenges. Our teams support all facets of the Contentful ecosystem, including the Contentful marketplace, the Contentful App framework, developer experience, and most recently AI agentic experience.
- Collaborate closely with other product, design, and engineering leaders to shape the long term vision of the Contentful ecosystem
- Collaborate with other teams across Contentful to connect our work to the entire product experience
- Collaborate with other staff engineers on high level architecture topics and technical alignment
- Mentor and guide engineers to build quality, scalable code
- Develop innovative new features that take our product in new directions
- Build a deep understanding of our customers to improve onboarding, adoption, and usage of all of our work
Other
- 5+ years experience in technical leadership, specifically managing software/platform engineering teams; direct experience building complex platform products and infrastructure at scale.
- Proven track record delivering high-quality software and platform capabilities for internal and external customers.
- Strategic, data-driven thinking in translating business requirements into effective technical execution.
- Advanced stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Outcome-oriented and pragmatic; focused on delivering tangible business impact and customer value.
- Entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Commitment to professional development and team growth.
- Excellent communication skills aligning diverse stakeholders.
- An innovative spirit and willingness to boldly embrace new technologies and directions
- This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business.
- The salary range displayed is specifically for those potential hires who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for the role.
