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Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

194k – 267kSan Francisco, CAHybrid8+ YOE
Summary

Staff Software Engineer building and scaling high-volume, low-latency distributed data platform services and analytics infrastructure using Java, Kinesis, Flink, Snowflake, and Kubernetes. Requires 8+ years experience and U.S. Person status for FedRAMP access.

About the role

Job Duties and Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components
  • Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation
  • Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning
  • Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java
  • Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including:
    • Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka
    • Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam
    • Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop
    • Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos
  • Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems
  • Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
  • Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management
  • Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management

Nice to Have

  • Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure
  • Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services
  • Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems
  • Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop
  • Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack

Additional Requirements

  • This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
Skills
JavaKinesisKafkaFlinkSparkBeamSnowflakeHadoopKubernetesAWS
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