About the Opportunity

Become part of the Ninetailed Team, pioneer of composable personalization and experimentation within the Contentful family.

At Ninetailed by Contentful, you will help revolutionize personalization & experimentation for leading businesses worldwide. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and optimizing data pipelines that power our Insights product. Your work will enable our customers to derive impactful, data-driven insights through a robust and scalable data infrastructure.

What to expect? 

  • Design and develop cloud-native data pipelines for event ingestion, transformation and storage, utilizing a variety of data processing frameworks. Ninetailed works with the Cloudflare Workers Platform and Google Cloud Platform including technologies like Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Run and Cloud Functions
  • Implement statistical models and machine learning algorithms, transforming data science concepts into production-ready solutions that deliver customer value.
  • Collaborate closely with your peers, and other teams to ensure efficient data flow and integration across the data stack.
  • Develop and optimize data processes to handle high-volume datasets, ensuring data reliability and efficiency.
  • Maintain compliance with data security and privacy standards, focusing on GDPR requirements.

What you need to be successful

  • Proven experience in building data products that ingest and process billions of analytics events, delivering value to customers through insights and analytics.
  • Strong expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines using cloud-native tools. Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform data stack is a significant plus.
  • Ability to design, implement, deploy, and operate statistical and machine learning models in production environments at scale.
  • Understanding of statistical concepts used for A/B Testing, attribution and predictive analytics.
  • Experience with libraries like Pandas, NumPy and frameworks such as PyMC, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn or others.
  • Proficiency in Python for data workflows, data modeling, and statistical implementation, along with SQL for data querying. Familiarity with TypeScript is beneficial for working effectively with backend teams.
  • Experience with writing and maintaining automated tests, using testing frameworks like Great Expectations, Soda Core, or GCP Dataform assertions, as well as Python testing tools like PyTest or unittest.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices, ideally using tools like Terraform, to ensure a reproducible and scalable data environment.
  • Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership.
  • Great communication skills in English, especially when explaining complex technical concepts.

What’s in it for you?

  • Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
  • Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
  • Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
  • We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days,  education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
  • Time off to care for and focus on your growing family 
  • Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
  • Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
  • An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
  • A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
  • New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

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Who are we?

Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

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