Senior Staff Engineer - Backend & Data Engineering

About the Role

Required Qualifications

• 6-10 years hands-on backend engineering with deep expertise in Java, Spring, and Spring Boot
• Production experience with Apache Cassandra: data modeling, consistency tuning, compaction strategies, cluster operations, and troubleshooting
• Strong Apache Spark and Scala experience for distributed batch processing; proven ability to run Spark jobs on Amazon EMR with Apache Airflow
• Experience with streaming systems (Apache Flink or Kinesis): stream joins, windowing, aggregations, and operational latency optimization
• Strong PostgreSQL background and understanding of polyglot data architectures
• Experience with AWS data services: S3, EMR, RDS, Glue, Kinesis, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch
• Solid understanding of distributed systems: retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, eventual consistency
• Experience with real-time analytics systems or operational dashboards
• Ability to debug complex production issues across services, jobs, and data stores; experience mentoring engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Production Cassandra operations: capacity planning, monitoring, disaster recovery
• Data lakehouse or warehouse patterns (Iceberg, Delta Lake)
• CI/CD and production operations (Jenkins, Docker, Sentry)
• Observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk)
• AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
• Education
• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent professional experience
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