Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Position overview

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own scalable, high-performance data platform components and streaming infrastructure.
• Collaborate on project design and implementation; conduct design and code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Mentor engineers and debug production issues across services and stack layers.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one language and comfort with more than one backend language; examples include Java, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Python.
• Experience with at least one of MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL; computer science fundamentals and strong API design skills.
• Comfort with distributed teams, incremental delivery, and React or a similar frontend stack, or willingness to learn.

Nice to have

• Cloud distributed computing, Kinesis or Kafka, Flink or Spark or Beam, Snowflake or Hadoop, and Kubernetes, Hadoop, or Mesos are listed as useful experience.
• Security, encryption, identity, authentication, public cloud, large-scale data integration, batch and online systems, or distributed systems experience is a plus.

Compensation

• Annual base salary is $165,000–$227,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area and $147,000–$202,000 in California outside the Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington.
• The role may also include equity, bonus, and benefits.