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Staff, Backend Engineer - Catalog

225k – 300kPalo Alto, CABackend EngineeringHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

Leads development of DataHub's platform framework, building scalable metadata ingestion systems, APIs, event-driven processing, schema mapping, and AI asset versioning. Requires 8+ years in distributed systems, advanced Python/API expertise, and high-scale data processing experience.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion systems for enterprise-scale metadata
  • Develop clean, intuitive APIs for our connector ecosystem
  • Implement event-driven architectures for real-time metadata processing
  • Create schema mapping between diverse systems and DataHub's unified model
  • Design versioning systems for AI assets (training data, model weights, embeddings)

Requirements

  • 8+ years building production-grade distributed systems
  • Advanced Python and API design expertise
  • Experience with high-scale data processing or integration frameworks
  • Strong systems knowledge and distributed architecture experience
  • Proven track record solving complex technical challenges
  • Built and maintained online applications serving live traffic at scale (100+ QPS)
  • Set up monitoring and alerting for services
  • Designed indexing, storage, and data architectures to make large-scale data accessible to online services
  • Designed and scaled distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience developing in a tight loop with LLMs and applying best practices for scalable LLM development

Languages

  • One of Java/Scala/Kotlin/C#/Go (very strong nice-to-have / borderline must-have)
  • Python/TypeScript/Node.js (nice-to-have)

Technical Skills

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes/Docker
  • CI/CD deployment pipelines
  • Microservice Architecture

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with DataHub or similar metadata/ETL frameworks (Airflow, Airbyte, dbt)
  • Open-source contributions
  • Experience building and maintaining services that make calls to LLMs in order to serve live traffic
  • Experience fine-tuning LLM-powered applications exposed to end users
  • Early-stage startup experience

Compensation

Salary Range: $225,000 to $300,000

Skills
PythonJavaScalaKotlinGoAWSKubernetesDockerCI/CDMicroservicesAPI DesignDistributed SystemsLLMsEvent-Driven Architecture
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