Staff Engineer

Cerebras; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 257,289 - 385,934; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical and dental care

Life insurance

Flex Benefits - Multisport, vouchers, tickets

Employee Referral Program

Hackathons and Knowledge Sharing

Tech and sport communities

Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days

English/German classes

Game room and chillout zone

Job summary

Cerebras is seeking a Senior Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Data Platform team in Warsaw, Poland. You will define the technical vision and drive architectural decisions across critical domains. Your role will involve building a scalable data platform while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers.

The ideal candidate has proven experience in senior roles like Staff Engineer, a strong background in data platforms, and expertise in technologies such as AWS and Terraform. Join us in reshaping the labour market and advancing job-tech platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Solid expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, or Spark.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision and architecture of the Data Platform.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality and operational practices.

Skills

Data platforms

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

AWS

Terraform

Kafka/MSK

Airflow

Glue

Spark

Tools

DBT

Datadog

Job description

Company Description

Who we are

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in a fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

At our Tech Hub, located near Wilanowska Metro, we are here as more than 300 ambitious specialists who work on the development of our IT products. We are proud to be part of The Stepstone Group, a global expert in job-tech platforms and e-recruiting.

Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job-tech platform.

Job Description

The job at a glance

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for providing technical leadership for our Data Platform team, defining technical direction and driving architectural decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains.

Working in the Data Platform department you will build scalable, reliable and well-governed data platform capabilities that support analytics, AI and business-critical products, while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.

This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform, driving decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical direction
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practices
• Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges, improving decision-making, and contributing to planning and risk management
• Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation

Qualifications

Your skills and qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or in an equivalent senior individual contributor leadership role
• Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders
• Solid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and building scalable data solutions
• Experience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, as well as batch and streaming processing
• Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing and observability tools (e.g. Datadog), with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus

Benefits

Your benefits

• Premium medical and dental care
• Life insurance
• Flex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport, vouchers, tickets etc.)
• Employee Referral Program
• Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours, In-house projects
• Tech and sport communities
• Events and integration parties
• Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days
• English/German classes
• Game room and chillout zone

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.