Staff Engineer, Payroll Foundations (d/f/m)

Join Personio, an intelligent HR platform that simplifies complex tasks for small and medium-sized organizations. As a Staff Engineer on the Payroll Foundations team, you will own the technical direction of the core data storage and serving system that Personio Payroll runs on. This hands-on technical leadership role requires deep expertise in high-scale data storage, particularly PostgreSQL. You will solve complex challenges around correctness, reliability, and performance, and your decisions will directly impact thousands of employees being paid correctly every month.

About Personio

• Own the data foundation by setting the architecture and patterns for the storage and serving system at the heart of payroll processing.
• Lead long-running technical efforts that span team boundaries within payroll, taking accountability for delivery and quality the whole way through.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimise and scale a PostgreSQL-based data service that handles far higher load than anywhere else in payroll.