Infrastructure Engineer, Contentful
+ Stock Options
Content management platform
Open for applications
Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments
- Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC, ALB, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Route53, RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, etc
- Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning
- Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including workload tuning, autoscaling, and troubleshooting under load
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred)
- Understanding of networking concepts: routing, DNS, load balancing
- Familiarity with CDN/Edge (e.g., Fastly) and how they interact with backend systems
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge, Network, Compute, and Storage layers
- Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic
- Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO, SLA, etc
- Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)
- A collaborative mindset: you're helpful, respectful, and enjoy sharing knowledge
- Ability to context switch, work through ambiguity, and contribute across multiple workstreams
- You lead by example, mentor others, and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) who cares deeply about building and operating robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
- You’ll help shape the backbone that supports hundreds of billions of requests per month, working in an engaging environment and tackling various challenges
- This is not just about maintaining systems - it’s about improving them thoughtfully
- You’ll design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable - serving billions of monthly requests
- You’ll work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
- You’ll deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully
- You’ll collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements
- You’ll work to improve observability at scale
- You’ll help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems
- You’ll be involved in incident response, postmortems
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.3m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Denver, Colorado, United States
Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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