Job Description

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WHO WE ARE

Tealium is the trusted leader in real-time Customer Data Platforms (CDP), helping organizations unify their customer data to deliver more personalized, privacy-conscious experiences. As the demand for connected, intelligent customer engagement grows, Tealium’s leadership in CDP is translating directly into leadership in enabling enterprise AI strategies By providing clean, consented, and actionable data, Tealium empowers its customers to accelerate the adoption of AI and machine learning, fueling smarter personalization, predictive insights, and business outcomes at scale.

More than 800 leading global brands trust Tealium to power their customer data strategies and deliver real-time, personalized experiences at scale.

Team Tealium has team members present in nearly 20 countries worldwide, serving customers across more than 30 countries. We win together with respect and appreciation for the talents required of all positions and the people who contribute to each of these. We are intentional about our WOWs (Ways of Work) culture, our investment in our team members, and how we care and connect.

With an extraordinary portfolio of investors (including Georgian, Silver Lake Waterman, Battery, and others) and deep industry experience, Tealium has the financial backing, profitability, and expertise to continue to outpace competitors and lead the way in innovation. Today, Tealium holds over 50 patents, and a few of the recent industry recognitions include:

• A Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms

• 2025 TrustRadius Award Winner: Buyer’s Choice

• 2024 Invoca Partner Collaboration Award

• 2024 G2 Leader in Tag Management & Enterprise Data Governance

• Tealium Customer Data Hub achieved the Top Rated Award by TrustRadius (2024)

• Named on Destination CRM’s 2024 Top 100 Technologies List for Sales

• Named on the 2024 Best and Brightest in the Nation list

• BuiltIn’s 2024 Best Place to Work

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Tealium is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer who will be responsible for designing, building, and evolving backend platform services that power Tealium’s next generation of AI-enabled customer data products and real-time configuration workflows.

As part of the Platform Services team, you will collaborate across Java, Frontend, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and Product to deliver scalable backend capabilities for Tealium’s emerging agentic and AI-assisted experiences, including CloudStream, Tealium Functions, the Functions AI Assistant, the Tealium Agentic API (MCP server), and orchestration services for agentic UX.

We’re looking for engineers who can think strategically, operate independently, and take ownership of outcomes in a fast-moving environment. There is a strong emphasis on leveraging AI and modern engineering tools to accelerate development, improve problem-solving, and enhance software quality and delivery speed.

Successful candidates demonstrate ownership, resourcefulness, and strong problem-solving skills, with a data-driven mindset and a commitment to continuous learning, adaptability, and cross-functional collaboration.

Tech Stack

AWS ServicesEC2, ECS, S3, EKS, EMR (and glue), Lambdas, step functions, MSK, Kinesis, Cloud Watch

AI / LLM PlatformsAmazon Bedrock, LLM APIs, prompt-driven backend workflows

DBDynamo, Redshift, Postgres, Mongo, Redis

LanguagesJava 17/21

FrameworksQuarkus, Hazelcast, React

ServicesTelepresens, Jenkins, Datadog, Sumologic, Jfrog, Testrail

BuildMaven, Gradle

YOUR DAY TO DAY

• Partner closely with software engineers, architects, DevOps, Product Managers, and frontend engineers to design and deliver high-quality backend platform services.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable applications using modern Java frameworks for real-time data processing, configuration workflows, and AI-enabled product capabilities.

• Build backend services that coordinate AI assistants, orchestration flows, and tool-driven workflows in a safe, observable, and governable way.

• Leverage AI-powered development tools and modern engineering workflows to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and solution design

• Implement and improve APIs and service layers for profile exploration, configuration, and workflow execution, including support for MCP-based and agent-driven use cases.

• Contribute to backend draft-state, validation, commit, and profile consistency workflows required for complex multi-step configuration changes.

• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, contributing to planning, estimation, and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to architectural design discussions, test planning, operational excellence, and guardrail design for AI-facing and customer-facing backend services.

• Participate in peer code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, reliability expectations, and safe mutation patterns.

• Improve observability, performance, scalability, rate limiting, and production readiness for distributed backend services supporting Functions, MCP, and orchestration workloads.

• Research, evaluate, and recommend new technologies or design approaches to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and developer velocity.

WHAT YOU BRING TO TEALIUM

• 5–7+ years of professional experience in Java software development.

• Extensive experience deploying software in AWS, with hands-on expertise in cloud-native backend services and infrastructure patterns.

• Strong understanding of modern DevOps principles and practices.

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and Terraform.

• Experience working with both NoSQL and relational databases, including DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, Redis, Cassandra, and Snowflake.

• Experience with distributed messaging and streaming technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kinesis, and Kafka.

• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-powered development tools and workflows (e.g., code assistants, agentic IDE tools, LLM-based debugging and generation tools) to improve productivity, system design, and delivery speed

• Experience designing, building, and supporting high-traffic, highly available systems.

• Proven ability to build reliable, observable, and production-ready services with strong operational ownership.

• Practical experience with AI platform integrations and tooling is a strong plus, particularly Amazon Bedrock and production use of LLM-based APIs and services.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tools, such as Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, or similar agentic coding tools, is a plus.

• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to engineers, architects, product partners, and leadership.

• Strong ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver effectively in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

• Proven track record of operating with autonomy, accountability, and strong execution focus in ambiguous or evolving technical environments

WAGE TRANSPARENCY

In several countries worldwide, including regions within the EMEA and APJ, employers are required or strongly encouraged to include salary ranges in job postings. While requirements vary by location, transparency is a core value at Tealium. We’re committed to providing clear and consistent compensation information to all applicants, regardless of location.

This position offers a base salary range of 240,000 - 315,000 PLN (Polish zloty) annually. The final offer is determined by job-related skills, experience, and qualifications. The role may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus and equity options.

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WHY YOU WANT TO WORK HERE

At Tealium, we don’t just offer the ordinary, we provide the extraordinary:

• Tealium WOWs (Ways of Work), our award winning culture is how with think, act and connect together at Tealium
• Mosaic, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is grounded in our mosaic of diverse perspectives and shared belonging as we live in work across the US and in nearly 20 countries
• Tealium Cares, to promote caring in our communities, 15 hours of paid work time for volunteer activities and programs is offered annually
• Tealium Connects (remote-first working), enabling many of us to choose where we do our best work and offering new hire stipends to assist with purchasing things we need to support a successful home office environment
• Tealium Ownership, share in the success of Tealium by becoming an owner of Tealium beginning with new hire equity grants
• Tealium Time, paid time-off policy to offer flexibility to take time when needed and robust leave programs, including extended paid parental leave and company holidays
• Healium, health and wellness programs to help us be our best selves in the experiences of health, physical, mental, social, and even financial well-being and wellness
• Tealium LIFT (Learning is Facilitated at Tealium), offering a myriad of professional development opportunities with over 6,000 courses available on demand to best-in-class manager and leadership development programs
• Health and Related Benefits Programs, offering market competitive benefits programs