Principal SaaS Software Engineer - Shape the Future of Data Management

We are Ataccama, and we are on a mission to empower organizations to maximize the transformative potential of data and AI. Our product enables both technical and less technical ‘data people’ across their organizations to create high-quality, governed, safe, and reusable data products. It’s what made us a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant® for Data Quality Solutions™, and what inspired Bain Capital Tech Opportunities to invest in our future growth.

Our vision is to be the leading AI-powered cloud data management company and to do that, we’re making Ataccama a great place to work and grow. Our people are located across the globe. They succeed by collaborating as a team and thrive in our company culture defined by these core values:

Aim High

Customer Focused

ONE Team

Candid and Caring

Challenging Fun

We are open to a hybrid working setup. #LI-hybrid

Our Current Challenge

Ataccama Product & Engineering is at the forefront of a transformative journey, transitioning from an on-premise enterprise solution to a fully managed multi-cloud platform. We cater to Fortune 500 companies with stringent security and compliance requirements. Simultaneously, our clients expect a user-friendly, rapidly deployable collaborative data management platform that seamlessly adapts to their organizational needs.

Your Challenge

• Design and develop a cloud native enterprise system that scales well and runs reliably
• Lead cross team initiatives, cracking the hardest technical challenges, bringing technical alignment to our SaaS engineering organization
• Help drive our SaaS architecture, including redesigning the current platform and streamlining the release process to ensure rapid time-to-value while maintaining high quality and security standards
• Mentor others (both individuals and teams) by sharing your vast experience, best practices and lessons learned from past failures
• Take end-to-end ownership of the entire product, from feature development to achieving ambitious SLAs
• Attain a profound understanding of data management and design scalable systems capable of handling vast amounts of data within the cloud ecosystem and across various data sources

Is This You?

• You have strong experience with building and running multitenant, cloud native systems reliably at scale
• “Keep things simple” and "You build it you run it" mentality is your default mindset
• You enjoy collaborating across product engineering teams on software architecture with a strong focus on enabling feature teams to deliver high-quality software
• You have a lot of experience with many successes and failures to talk about
• You get joy and pride in sharing your experience and mentoring others
• You still enjoy being hands on - you write clean, well-designed, documented, and testable code, with a strong emphasis on quality, consistency, and speed of delivery
• You have a strong expertise in many of the following areas: distributed systems, multi-tenancy, message queues, continuous integration & deployment
• You are able to keep your ego in check and collaborate productively with others

The Tech We Expect

• Our backend primarily employs the latest versions of Java and Spring Boot, with a warm welcome to Python expertise. For communication we utilise GraphQL.
• Our products are operated in AWS and Azure, so familiarity with these ecosystems and common managed services (e.g., Aurora Serverless, managed AKS, EKS..) is essential.
• We orchestrate our services using Kubernetes, and your comfort with Kubernetes environments, Helm charts, and related technologies is critical.
• Your experience developing fully multi-tenant and distributed systems, as well as working with message queue services like RabbitMQ, will be invaluable.

Our General Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, GraphQL, Python, jOOQ
• Storage: Aurora, Postgres, Elastic, Minio
• Infrastructure: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
• Frontend: TypeScript, React/Vue, Apollo, Nx, MobX..
• Big Data: Spark, Redshift, Snowflake

Work equipment

• Company laptop
• Company mobile phone + SIM card & package of mobile data

Perks & Benefits

• Long-Term Incentive Program
• "Bring Your Friend" referral program
• Flexible working hours & flexible working setup
• The Global Family Support Program - A paid leave program to help all parents focus on the new addition to their family
• 25 days of vacation, 2 sick days, and 1 personal day for each calendar year with Ataccama (up to 5 in total)
• Flexipass or Multisport card (after finishing your probation period)
• Annual package for mental health support
• Shared company cards for free entrance to Prague Zoo & Botanical Garden
• Company bikes, longboards, e-scooters
• Online company language courses
• Conference tickets to the best industry events of the year
• Online courses & company access to Udemy to hone your skills
• Company library, where you can even suggest the best educational books for us to order
• Kitchens stocked with fresh fruit and juice, teas, and the best coffee




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