# Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Data Platform

**Company:** [Baton](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baton)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $162k – $216k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Data Pipelines, Event-Driven Architecture, Real-Time Data Streaming, Data Modeling, Big Data Technologies, Data Ingestion, API Development, Data Analytics
**Posted:** 2026-03-19

> Designs and maintains near real-time data streaming platforms, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures. Requires advanced Python, SQL expertise, and 3+ years in software engineering focused on data systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and maintain a robust data streaming and messaging architecture.
- Ownership of our near real-time data streaming platform.
- Act as a technical liaison to ensure alignment of data strategies with business goals.
- Take charge of the entire data landscape, encompassing near real-time data ingestion, sophisticated processing, and efficient data consumption strategies.
- Collaborate closely with data stakeholders to simplify and solve complex data challenges, transforming them into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain data pipelines, enhance data models, and refine API layers.

## Required Qualifications

### Data Systems Expertise
- Experience with real-time data systems
- Relational table modeling and Event driven pipeline architecture
- Working familiarity with SQL: Query Performance Analysis, Optimization, and Construction

### Python Proficiency
- Advanced proficiency coding in Python

## Preferred Qualifications
- **3-5 years** of Software Engineering experience, with a preference for backgrounds in event-driven architecture or real-time data streaming
- Strong foundation in data analytics and big data technologies

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