You provide architectural and technical leadership by driving scalable architectures and long-term technical improvements across teams
You support engineers hands-on in designing and implementing high-quality services, distributed systems, and data pipelines
You collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and other Staff Engineers to align on architectural decisions and technical direction
You evaluate and integrate AI technologies where they strengthen systems, processes, or product capabilities with measurable impact
You enable responsible AI adoption by defining best practices, guidelines, and reusable patterns across engineering
You mentor engineers and drive cross-team alignment while reducing complexity and improving engineering-wide consistency

You already work as a Staff Engineer and have impact on department level, not only within your team
You have extensive experience in modern software engineering and distributed systems
You bring strong architectural thinking and can align teams and stakeholders on technical decisions
You have deep experience with event-driven systems, microservices, and AWS-based architectures
You are familiar with data warehouse concepts, data modeling, data governance, data pipelines, and data quality frameworks
You have a solid understanding of AI concepts such as LLMs, embeddings, vector search, agents, and automation patterns
You have experience integrating AI capabilities into existing systems or workflows and assessing feasibility, risk, and impact
You communicate fluently in English; German is a plus

Staff Engineer – Data & AI Focus

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