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Beacon BiosignalsBeacon BiosignalsUnited States

Senior Software Engineer, Data

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling backend data infrastructure, event-driven pipelines, data models, and APIs for Beacon's brain EEG platform and clinical studies. Requires 5+ years backend experience (2+ in data engineering), SQL/PostgreSQL, streaming tools, and data languages like Python or Julia.

150k – 170k/yr
Remote5+ YOEData Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product managers, internal stakeholders, and other development and support teams to design new integrations, services, and solutions for scaling Beacon's data platform.
  • Implement features with attention to detail, demonstrating product awareness and high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability across the lifespan of the system.
  • Draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, soliciting and incorporating input, and helping your team align on a set of decisions to guide development.
  • Leverage feedback from internal stakeholders and external partners to improve operational robustness and ease of use of the Datastore and its services via new documentation, tools, and dashboards.
  • Lead the design and integration of new services and components for data and event processing.
  • Contribute to scaling the Datastore’s core infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs that unlock new workflows in Beacon’s expanding portfolio of clinical studies and digital health products.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend development experience, including at least 2 years focused on data engineering, data platforms, or infrastructure for data-centric applications.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, with production experience working with PostgreSQL.
  • Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing, using tools such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or a cloud-based equivalent like Amazon Kinesis.
  • Proficiency in a data-oriented programming language such as Julia, Python, or R.
  • Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments, with familiarity in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and/or Helm.
  • A collaborative mindset - you enjoy working across disciplines and believe people achieve more together than alone.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in asynchronous and remote-friendly environments.
  • A self-directed approach, with a track record of thriving in hybrid or fully remote teams.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Julia (strong plus).
  • Experience in TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js), especially for API integration work.

Compensation

  • Salary range: $150,000 – $170,000 (base; total compensation includes equity, PTO and other benefits). Adjusted based on experience, skills, and location.

Skills

SQLPostgresKafkaRabbitMQpulsaramazon kinesisjuliaPythonRKubernetesTerraformHelmTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.js

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