Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

About the role

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, and cross-functional partners on project development, design, and implementation.
• Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Coach and mentor engineers; debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Design, build, deploy, and optimize streaming infrastructure and systems powering analytics and machine learning.

Required qualifications

• At least 4 years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one language and comfort with more than one backend language; Java, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Python are examples.
• Experience with at least one of MySQL, Redis, or PostgreSQL.
• Demonstrable computer science fundamentals and strong API design skills.
• Comfort working with a geographically distributed team; ownership, accountability, attention to detail, and customer focus.
• Track record of delivering incrementally, gathering feedback, and iterating on solutions.
• Comfort with React or similar front-end UI stacks, or willingness to learn.

Preferred experience

• Cloud-based distributed computing technologies, including messaging systems such as Kinesis or Kafka; processing systems such as Flink, Spark, or Beam; storage and compute such as Snowflake or Hadoop; and coordinators or schedulers such as Kubernetes, Hadoop, or Mesos.
• Maintaining security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure; building mission-critical high-volume cloud services.
• Large-scale data integration in batch and online systems, including petabyte-scale environments; distributed systems experience such as Kafka or Hadoop.

Location eligibility

• The employee must be on U.S. soil, defined in the description as the 50 states, District of Columbia, or U.S. outlying areas. The posting states there is no citizenship requirement.