Staff Internal Product Engineer

About this role

Responsibilities

• AI has dramatically expanded who can build software inside Aiven. People across Finance, People, GTM and Marketing now turn operational problems into working applications much faster than before, and Product Development is starting to build too. Our engineering foundations need to catch up with that new way of working.
• You'll own the engineering system for Aiven's internal applications: one foundation that makes building at this scale safe, maintainable and efficient, so applications are easy to maintain, merge and split as the business changes.
• You'll prove it on real products. You'll directly own our hiring platform and the gateway that gives applications controlled access to our business systems, and use them to find what the shared layer gets wrong before everyone else depends on it. Then you'll help teams across the company move onto it.
• You'll build on Aiven Runtime, our own product, as its demanding internal customer. What you learn running real applications on it goes back to the product teams.
• As a Staff engineer, your impact is mostly outside your own team, and your leverage comes through influence rather than authority.
• You'll join a small team responsible for the data, systems and internal software behind how Aiven operates, based at our Helsinki HQ. We work together in the office three days a week.
• Within two months, you've got the first applications running in production on Aiven Runtime. Within six months, you've shipped the improvements our hiring platform and gateway need most and built what you learned into the shared layer, most of our actively d