Staff Engineer, Data & Analytics
Staffbase•3h ago
Chemnitz, Sachsen, GermanyHybridFull-timeStaff Level7+ yrs exp
Top focus
Staff EngineerData EngineerAnalytics EngineerVp DataSenior Data Engineer
- About Staffbase
- We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform . Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.
- Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague
- Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
- We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.
- As a Staff Engineer in our Data & Analytics team, you will drive the technical direction of our data platform and analytics capabilities. This is a hybrid role combining hands-on technical leadership with people leadership. You will work closely with the Director of Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to advance our data infrastructure and lay the foundations for AI-powered product features.
- Our environment
- 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.
- What you'll be doing
- 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
- What you need to be successful
- 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.
- What you'll get
- 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
Required skills
data engineeringdata architecturedata lakesdata governancedata modelingstreaming