# Senior Software Engineer, Data Centralization & Storage

**Company:** [Attentive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/attentive)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $178k – $206k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Spring Boot, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Apache Hudi, Terraform, AWS, DynamoDB, Pulsar
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Senior Software Engineer focused on architecting and scaling high-throughput data platforms for analytics, AI/ML, and centralized storage using Java, Spark, Flink, Kafka, and modern data lake technologies.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Accomplish
- Architect high-throughput solutions that power our most critical operations, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
- Expand and enhance our self-service platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to fuel our AI, ML, and analytics goals.
- Tackle complex distributed data challenges, streamline system integrations, and uphold high standards of quality and governance.
- Champion cutting-edge technologies, keeping our platform at the forefront of industry advancements and enabling strategic outcomes.
- Unify data from diverse systems, paving the way for experimentation and innovation while empowering teams with intuitive tools and frameworks.

## Your Expertise
- Track record of debugging issues across layers—from application logic to infrastructure bottlenecks—and understand the tradeoffs in system design.
- Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput scalable systems.
- In-depth knowledge of high throughput processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, and/or Kafka.
- Proficiency in Java and strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and optimization.
- Development experience working with data warehouse tools like Snowflake, Clickhouse, Trino, etc.
- Experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or Hudi.
- Knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC.
- Proven track record of architecting applications at scale and maintaining infrastructure as code via Terraform.
- Excited by new technologies but conscious of choosing them for the right reasons.

## What We Use
- Backend: Java / Spring Boot microservices, Gradle, DynamoDB, Pulsar, Flink, Spark, Postgres, Planetscale, Redis, AWS.
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, Playwright.

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