# Staff Software Engineer, Data
**Company:** [Siftstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/siftstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Marina Del Rey, CA
**Salary:** $200K-$250K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Python, Apache Flink, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Apache Arrow
**Posted:** 2025-10-27
> Build scalable data infrastructure to ingest and process millions of hardware telemetry data points per second. Requires 7+ years in data engineering, streaming systems like Flink/Kafka, and databases like PostgreSQL.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of hardware sensor data points per second
- Develop durable, efficient database solutions to support real-time reads and large-scale analytics workloads
- Pioneer data architecture by integrating recent innovations in streaming and storage, including cloud-native and diskless designs
- Help define engineering culture, standards, and processes
- Collaborate closely with peers on architecture, design, code reviews, and scaling strategies

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
- 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering roles
- Hands-on experience with event-time-based stream processing or streaming SQL systems using tools like Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam, or similar
- Proficiency with relational and time-series databases like PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, TimescaleDB, or equivalent
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or low-latency backend services, ideally written in **Go**, **Rust**, or **Python**
- Familiarity with DevOps and cloud infrastructure tools such as **Kubernetes**, **Prometheus**, **ArgoCD**, and **Terraform**
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving

## Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with telemetry data from hardware systems, high-throughput ingest pipelines, or columnar storage formats like **Apache Arrow** and **Parquet**
- Experience building resilient, performant systems that scale to billions of records
- Curiosity about new data paradigms and eagerness to evaluate and integrate emerging tools and techniques

## Technologies
- Frontend & Backend: **Go**, **gRPC**, **PostgreSQL**, **Protobuf**, **React**, **TypeScript**
- Data Infrastructure: **Apache Arrow**, **DataFusion**, **Flink**, **Kafka**, **Parquet**, **Rust**
- Ops & Tooling: **AWS**, **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, **GitHub Actions**, **Prometheus**, **Argo CD**, **Grafana**, **Linux**

## Compensation
- Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
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