Staff Engineer

Who we areAt 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.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. Your responsibilitiesDefine and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform, driving decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domainsEstablish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical directionDrive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practicesSupport end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges, improving decision-making, and contributing to planning and risk managementMentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automationYour skills and qualificationsProven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or in an equivalent senior individual contributor leadership roleStrong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholdersSolid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and building scalable data solutionsExperience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, as well as batch and streaming processingKnowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing and observability tools (e.g. Datadog), with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus Your benefitsWe’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:Premium medical and dental careLife insuranceFlex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport, vouchers, tickets etc.)Employee Referral ProgramHackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours, In-house projectsTech and sport communitiesEvents and integration partiesCharity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer daysEnglish/German classesGame room and chillout zone Our commitmentEqual 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.