Software Engineer
Software Engineer focused on distributed systems, data engineering, and infrastructure at a real-time streaming platform. Builds CDC connectors, encryption features, analytics tools, and infrastructure automation using Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, and related technologies. In-person role in San Francisco.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build column encryption, launch analytics portal and schema change alerts.
- Build tooling to streamline and automate infrastructure workloads.
- Introduce pipeline efficiencies by making tradeoffs between virtual memory and disk.
- Build native change data capture (CDC) connectors to data sources.
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in computer science.
- Pragmatic mindset, focused on building the right thing.
- Comfortable working across the stack and wearing multiple hats.
- Interest in defining next-gen data platform using stream processing and CDC.
Preferred
- Past experience scaling async systems.
- Exposure to gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Helm.
- Proficiency in Go.
Tech Stack
Frontend: TypeScript (React, Material UI) Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch Infra: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm on GCP and AWS
Compensation & Benefits
- $150K–$215K base salary, depending on experience.
- Competitive equity package.
- Healthcare, 401(k), unlimited PTO.
- Lunch & dinner provided.
- Visa sponsorship available
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Helm, Terraform, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, React, TypeScript, GCP, AWS
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