# Senior Software Engineer, Data

**Company:** [Beacon Biosignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/beacon-biosignals)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, pulsar, amazon kinesis, julia, Python, R, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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