Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) at Contentful

London, England, United Kingdom

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

  • 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)

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable – serving billions of monthly requests
  • Work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
  • Deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully
  • Collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements
  • Work to improve observability at scale
  • Help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems
  • Be involved in incident response, postmortems

Skills

AWS
VPC
ALB
EKS
EC2
S3
Lambda
Route53
RDS
ElastiCache
SNS
SQS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Go
Fastly

Contentful

Digital content management platform for businesses

About Contentful

Contentful offers a platform for digital content management that enables businesses to create, manage, and deliver content without coding. Its content management system (CMS) is designed for teams to streamline their content production and maintain a consistent experience across various brands and channels. Unlike competitors, Contentful operates on a freemium model, providing free access to basic features while charging for advanced capabilities. The company's goal is to empower businesses to effectively manage their digital content at scale.

Berlin, GermanyHeadquarters
2013Year Founded
$324.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_FCompany Stage
Consumer Software, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Stock Options
Fertility Treatment Support
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Professional Development Budget
Wellness Program
Phone/Internet Stipend
Home Office Stipend

Risks

Emerging CMS platforms with lower costs threaten Contentful's market share.
Integration challenges from the Ninetailed acquisition could disrupt operations.
The freemium model may limit revenue growth if users don't convert to paid plans.

Differentiation

Contentful offers a composable content platform for digital-first businesses.
The platform integrates seamlessly with hundreds of tools through open APIs.
Contentful's CMS allows content management without needing to write code.

Upsides

Contentful's acquisition of Ninetailed enhances its AI-driven content personalization capabilities.
Partnerships with Vercel and SAP expand Contentful's integration and market reach.
The rise of generative AI tools presents opportunities for Contentful's platform enhancement.

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