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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.\nThe Role:\nThe team's mission is to build the definitive AI-Native Open Source Data Platform. They are integrating best-of-breed open-source technologies - starting with data governance and discovery (DataHub) and moving into unified federated querying - to deliver a seamless data experience in minutes, not months.\nThey aren't a typical corporate team. They operate like an early-stage startup inside Aiven: they move fast, iterate rapidly, and default to extreme ownership. Senior Software Engineers don't just own a product surface from ideation to production - they shape how the team builds, help resolve the hardest technical problems, and raise the bar for everyone around them.\nThe AI-First Mindset\nThey aren't just building for an AI-first future; they live in it. They expect candidates to be AI-First Engineers. This means actively using LLMs and agentic workflows to supercharge daily coding, automate mundane tasks, and optimize deployment pipelines. Senior engineers are also expected to bring this mindset to the team - identifying where AI-driven workflows can multiply the team's output and helping others adopt them.\nWhat You'll Do:\n Own the Stack (Backend to Console): Act as a true full-stack engineer across backend services written in Python and the user-facing web flows within the React-based Aiven Console, taking on the most architecturally significant and ambiguous parts of the system.\nDrive Technical Direction: Work on complex, open-ended problems where the right approach isn't obvious - evaluate variable factors, choose methods and techniques, and define the patterns and standards the rest of the team builds on.\nLaunch & Maintain Managed OSS Products: Lead the technical design and delivery of new managed services like DataHub on Aiven, and help build out the context layer offering as it matures.\nMentor and Raise the Bar: Review designs and code, advise other engineers on complex technical matters, and help less experienced team members grow.\nContribute Back to the Community: Give back to the ecosystem by upstreaming bug fixes, optimizations, and feature enhancements to original open-source projects whenever possible.\nBuild AI-First Workflows: Design and productionize AI context workflows, including synthetic metadata generation, reducing hallucinations, and automated data discovery workflows.\nConstruct the Aiven Context Layer: Create integrations, features, and workflows that turn fragmented technologies into a seamless platform experience.\nPartner Beyond the Team: Network with contacts outside the immediate team - product, design, other engineering groups - and adapt how you communicate technical tradeoffs to a broader business audience.\nWhat You'll Bring:\nSenior software engineering experience, with a track record of resolving complex problems that require in-depth evaluation of variable factors and ambiguous requirements.\nDiverse Programming Skills: Deep proficiency in Python, with the judgment to select, adapt, and evaluate techniques for new or unfamiliar problems (Java, etc. as needed).\nFrontend Capabilities: Solid experience with React and TypeScript, plus enough product intuition to make UI decisions that hold up without close direction.\nSound Technical Judgment: Comfortable determining your own methods and procedures on new assignments, with work reviewed on completion rather than step by step.\nAn AI-First Workflow: You've already integrated AI tools deeply into your development process, and you look for automation opportunities for yourself and your team.\nA Startup Soul: You thrive in ambiguous environments, don't wait for permission or perfect documentation, and are comfortable being the person who figures things out first.\n Data Systems Literacy: Familiarity with the foundational building blocks of modern data stacks (e.g., PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Kafka).\nNice to Have:\nPrior experience as an early startup hire.\nActive contributions to open-source software (OSS) projects.\nBackground or strong interest in agentic context, data catalogs, or ontologies.\nExperience building or experimenting with Agentic workflows, Text-to-SQL, or Graph RAG.\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives that span multiple engineers or teams.\nAmazing! What’s next:\nIf you think Aiven is the place for you and that ourValues align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!\nGlobal Benefits:\nOur global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:\nParticipate in Aiven’s equity plan.\nBalance work and life with our hybrid work policy.\nChoose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.\nUse your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.\nReceive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.\nInquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)\nEnjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.\nHow to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:\nThere has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person. Our interviews will never occur via text or chat. If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at .\nEqual Opportunities:\nAiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.\nAt Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. 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