Senior Staff Software Engineer
Brandwatch · Budapest · €65,000–€75,000 (stated in the posting)
At Cision, we build software that supports large-scale, global enterprise infrastructure. Our teams enable platform, operations, and engineering groups with tools that improve visibility, reliability, automation, and decision-making across complex systems.
We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of internal platforms used by enterprise infrastructure teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, works independently, and owns systems end-to-end—from architecture through production operations.
You will operate as a technical leader within the team, influencing design decisions, setting engineering standards, and delivering high-impact solutions across backend services, data pipelines, and user-facing applications.
What You’ll Do
- Architect, build, and own full-stack software platforms supporting enterprise infrastructure and operations teams.
- Lead the technical design of systems that ingest, process, analyze, and expose infrastructure and operational data at scale.
- Develop backend services and APIs for data collection, enrichment, and querying.
- Build and maintain web interfaces with advanced search, filtering, and usability tailored for technical users.
- Design and implement ETL and data processing pipelines for structured and semi-structured data sources.
- Ensure applications are fully containerized and production-ready using Docker and Kubernetes-based deployment models.
- Act as a technical authority on system design, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, security, and product stakeholders to shape solutions aligned with long-term platform strategy.
- Set and uphold engineering best practices around testing, code quality, documentation, and operational readiness.
- Review designs and code across the team, providing clear guidance and raising the overall technical bar.
- Identify systemic issues, reduce technical debt, and proactively improve platform scalability and developer experience.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience as a Staff or Senior Full Stack Software Engineer working on complex, production systems.
- Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces and drive solutions to completion.
- Strong backend engineering experience, including API design and data-intensive services.
- Experience building data-driven applications involving ingestion, transformation, and analysis.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as C#, Python, Go, or Java.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application delivery.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and cloud-native application design.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development workflows.
- Excellent technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to influence without authority.
Preferred Technical Experience
- Experience designing and operating systems on Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar databases.
- Experience with ETL pipelines, analytics platforms, or operational data tooling.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
- Background building internal platforms or tools for infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering teams.
- Understanding of observability, cost optimization, reliability engineering, or infrastructure automation.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of large or critical systems.
Salary Range for this role - 65,000 - 75,000 Euros Annual Gross (if you are based in Bulgaria) and 24,000,000 - 26,000,000 HUF Annual Gross (if you are based in Hungary)
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