Staff Software Engineer

We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. 

The Role:

We're looking for a founding Staff Engineer to lead the way—someone who can architect, ship, and run this service. Think of this role as the CTO of the team: you'll set the technical direction, design the early architecture, define SLOs, and contribute to open-source. If you're interested in eventually moving into engineering management, that path is open.

We work like a startup inside Aiven: fast shipping, tight feedback loops, and treating mistakes as opportunities to learn. Our focus is on mid-market customers who need simple, open solutions that just work....