Staff Software Engineer, User Profile
Provides hands-on technical leadership for high-scale backend systems that ingest, process, store, and serve user-profile data. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and strong architectural and cross-team leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and architecture for high-scale systems and APIs responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving user profiles and attributes.
- Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives across APIs, streaming infrastructure, data processing, and integrations, translating ambiguous product and business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Design and evolve foundational platform capabilities that enable teams across the company to build safely and efficiently on user-profile data, including subscription lifecycle management and new data-source integrations.
- Drive architectural investments that improve scalability, reliability, data quality, observability, performance, and maintainability for systems processing data at massive scale.
- Partner with product, data, and ML teams to support segmentation, personalization, revenue attribution, behavioral analytics, and machine learning.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, architectural direction, and engineering standards while remaining hands-on with foundational and technically challenging work.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating backend or distributed systems at scale.
- Experience providing technical leadership on complex, multi-team initiatives from problem definition through architecture, execution, and production operation.
- Deep experience with high-scale data ingestion, processing, and streaming architectures handling large volumes of user, event, or similarly high-cardinality data.
- Strong programming and software design skills in Java or similar backend languages.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals across scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Ability to make and communicate high-impact architectural decisions, identify systemic technical risks and opportunities, and balance immediate product needs with long-term platform health.
- Strong communication, influence, and mentorship skills, including the ability to align teams around technical strategy without relying on formal authority.
Compensation and Benefits
- US base salary range: $180,000–$230,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
- Competitive perks and benefits, including health and wellness benefits, equity, and other employee benefits.
Skills
Java, Distributed Systems, Backend Systems, Data Ingestion, Data Processing, Stream Processing, APIs, Data Storage, Scalability, Reliability, Observability, Machine Learning
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