Staff Engineer, Data & Analytics

Staffbase GmbH
Dresden, Germany
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Access Artificial Intelligence Big Data Software as a Service Information Engineering Data Governance Data Infrastructure Data Warehousing Distributed Data Store Python (Programming Language) Data Lakes Data Analytics
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Job description

Home-Office Data Engineering Kafka MS Access Python Software as a Service (SaaS) Stakeholder Management, * Drive the technical direction of our data platform - leading architecture decisions, sequencing, and delivery in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Design stakeholders

  • Support and develop a team of 4-5 engineers: providing technical mentorship, unblocking delivery, and helping build a product-minded engineering culture.
  • Own and evolve the data infrastructure: data lake, data foundations, semantic layer, and data governance - building a solid base for AI and analytics features
  • Lead streaming adoption across the team, bringing hands-on expertise to an area the team is actively developing
  • Apply and advance strong data modeling practices across the platform.
  • Prioritize and mediate effectively with product stakeholders - advocating for the right technical decisions and sequencing of work
  • Contribute to the evolution of our self-service data platform approach, driving the cultural and technical shift toward distributed data ownership
  • Collaborate across the broader staff engineering community on cross-cutting architectural decisions

Requirements

  • Proven experience at Staff Engineer level or equivalent in a data engineering context
  • Strong architectural understanding of data platforms: data lakes, data foundations, data governance, and orchestration.
  • Experience with streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka) - hands-on exposure is a strong plus
  • Solid data modeling skills and the ability to raise this as a team-wide standard.
  • Experience working with large-scale datasets commensurate with a sizeable B2B SaaS customer base.
  • Python proficiency and comfortable working across a modern data stack
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - you are comfortable pushing back, negotiating roadmaps, and finding constructive compromises with product teams
  • A product-minded engineering mindset: able to balance technical rigour with pragmatic prioritization.
  • Leadership experience or ambition: you are comfortable guiding engineers and driving delivery

Nice to have

  • Experience with data governance for AI agents - understanding guardrails, access control, and safety considerations for agentic analytics.
  • Prior exposure to self-service data platform models and distributed data ownership strategies.
  • Experience in a product-led SaaS environment.

Benefits & conditions

  • Work alongside skilled, data-passionate engineers in a team that values collaboration
  • A flexible, agile environment with a strong focus on work-life balance
  • You will have real ownership and influence over data architecture
  • We are building toward a distributed, self-service data platform model - you will help shape how that evolves.
  • Data is a strategic asset at Staffbase: valued, actively growing, and directly enabling our AI product roadmap., * Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
  • Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
  • Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
  • Support - we offer offering a company pension scheme
  • Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project

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