Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

OVERVIEW

As a Staff Engineer in Marketing Services Team, you will be working on a variety of initiatives that help support and enable engineers and delivery across the tribe. As a team we focus on what the business unit needs at any given point in time, with direction from the Director of Engineering and Principal Engineer, looking at large initiatives that align with business and technical goals.

We are looking for someone who loves working in a collaborative environment and likes to work on all aspects of the software stack. You will work as part of a small cross-functional team who have influence over architecting solutions, investigating innovative and emergent technologies, building developer enablement tooling, and mentoring peers.

We use a mix of modern tools and languages and passionately believe in using the best tool for the job, e.g. TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, React, Golang, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

We utilize both AWS (Amazon Web Services) and GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for our infrastructure, and we are responsible for educating and mentoring engineers in other teams who are developing on top of these platforms.

THE CHALLENGE

• Educating and evangelizing company architectural principles and constraints, driving standardization and governance within Ad:s

• Mentoring and training engineers in best practices in software engineering and DevOps

• Providing technical guidance, advice and support to teams and helping design, execute, and operate solutions to complex technology problems

• Communicating concepts and direction with the creation and maintenance of supporting artifacts to a variety of stakeholders, showing logical implementations and highlighting potential risks

• Prevent the spread of accidental architecture, and encourage freedom within a framework

YOUR PROFILE

Required:

• 3+ years of professional full time experience with a C-based language (e.g. Golang, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.) or Python

• Ability to understand, analyze and clearly communicate complex problems to people with a varying range of skill levels

• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure from a development and operational perspective

• Excellent analytical skills

• Passionate about quality, performance and continuous improvement

• Very good English language skills

Experience in some of these areas:

• Understanding of IT Architecture Infrastructure

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code

• Experience developing and operating microservices; health checks, load balancing, observability, metrics, etc.

• Familiarity with microservices, Kubernetes, serverless systems, and a DevOps culture

• Optimization and scaling of microservices

What skills you can develop in our Staff Engineer position?

• Transformative change

• Solution architecture

• Mentoring, training, and sponsorship

• Professional experience with Go (Golang)

• Experience utilizing databases, SQL, or NoSQL

• Amazon Web Services

OUR OFFER

• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company 

• The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar. All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business. 

• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path. 

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US). 

• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun.  

• Education and training, like German and English courses and Sportradar eAcademy

• Exciting job field with the opportunity for personal development

• Tickets for sports events and concerts, as well as darts, table football, and table tennis for after-work sports activities in the office

• Team activities, like Happy Hours or marathons.

• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte in Vienna) for you.

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Hybrid working model, combining home office and work from the office.

While we value the opportunities to work from home, we truly believe that being together, and sharing ideas, opportunities, trials and tribulations with teammates make us stronger and more innovative – individually and as a company. We strengthen the fibers of our Company each and every day, just by being together. For this reason, we operate a hybrid model where we are in the office 3 days a week.

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

We relocated to our office near the Nordbahnviertel in the 2nd district of Vienna in Q1/2024. Due to the top inner-city location, we are excellently connected to the public transport network and the cycle path network and are therefore very easy to reach. In addition, we offer our employees a state-of-the-art infrastructure near the center of the most livable city in the world.