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 HighCustomer FocusedONE TeamCandid and CaringChallenging Fun
We are open to a hybrid working setup. #LI-hybrid
Our Current ChallengeAtaccama 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 role

• 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

About 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- 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
While we highly value cooperation with all our business partners, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. We reserve the right not to pay any fee for sending an unsolicited offer containing the details or resume of a job candidate, even if the relevant candidate is employed by our company.