Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform

What You’ll Do

• Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services.
• Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane.
• Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency.
• Champion the developer experience by providing exceptional support, technical documentation, and proactive troubleshooting for our wide user base.
• Lead high-stakes technical projects, maintaining end-to-end accountability for their delivery and quality.
• Collaborate with partner teams on delivering projects wider than your team's scope.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge.

Who You Are

• Self-starter who experiments methodically, iterates rapidly, and views failure as a learning opportunity.
• Finisher who takes projects through the finish line and does not stop at shipping code.
• Thrive in collaborative environments, championing a blameless culture and actively fostering the growth of teammates.
• Communicate complex ideas effectively, with experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and leading high-impact technical initiatives.
• Deeply committed to user experience, ensuring the tools you build empower developers.
• Strong proficiency in low-level languages (ideally Rust).
• Passion for deep-dive investigations, particularly in performance optimization and debugging complex systems.
• Curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow.
• Bonus: Direct experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.
• Bonus: Familiarity with language bindings and FFI.