# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Nectarsocial](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nectarsocial)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Real-Time Analytics, Ai Integration, Machine Learning, Infrastructure Scaling
**Posted:** 2026-03-10

> Senior Software Engineer architects and scales core systems for ingesting/processing social data from platforms like Instagram and TikTok, designs AI-powered data pipelines, leads technical decisions, and mentors engineers. Requires 5+ years experience with distributed systems and data infrastructure.

## Job Description

## What You'll Be Doing

- Architect and scale the core systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, and LinkedIn
- Design data pipelines that power AI agents and real-time analytics used by our customers
- Lead major technical decisions across the platform, writing design docs and establishing scalable architecture patterns
- Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our data and AI infrastructure as the platform scales
- Mentor engineers and review system designs and code to help raise the engineering bar across the team
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to solve complex technical problems and deliver impactful systems

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
- Strong experience designing and scaling distributed systems, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms
- Proven ability to architect systems and drive major technical decisions
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering direction
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy
- Strong product intuition and ability to collaborate closely with product and design teams
- Interest in AI-native engineering workflows and how AI is transforming software development

**Bonus Points**

- Startup experience building early-stage or rapidly scaling products
- Experience working with large-scale data pipelines or real-time analytics systems
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure and developer tooling such as **AWS**, **Pulumi**, **Postgres**, **ClickHouse**, or similar technologies
- Experience integrating AI or machine learning systems into production platforms

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