Senior Software Engineer

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 to completion.
• Thrives in collaborative environments, championing a blameless culture and fostering teammate growth.
• Communicates complex ideas effectively, with experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and leading high-impact technical initiatives.
• Deeply committed to user experience, ensuring tools 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 development workflow.

Bonus

• Direct experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.
• Familiarity with language bindings and FFI.

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks
• Free global mental health benefits
• Competitive global benefits (may vary by country and employment type)
• 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements (US-specific)