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Staff Software Development Engineer - Data Platforms

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3 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design architectures, build proofs of concept, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver new data services and migrations.
  • Build and maintain scalable real-time event collection and processing systems.
  • Develop data pipelines and infrastructure supporting AI model training, inference, autonomous agents, and the MCP server.
  • Detect, alert on, and resolve data quality issues while improving data trust and availability.
  • Enhance ingestion, storage, and processing systems using current engineering standards and optimize their unit economics.
  • Own services and the complete development lifecycle from ideation through deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational procedures for mission-critical data systems.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams, and support stakeholder access to data.
  • Govern company-wide data assets, audit data posture, reduce time to insight, and support data-informed business decisions.
  • Share knowledge, improve team productivity, and mentor junior and senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive professional experience in data engineering, including designing, building, and operating large-scale, high-throughput data platforms.
  • Experience with extreme-scale systems handling hundreds of millions of events or requests per minute, billions of daily events, and petabytes of storage.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
  • Deep practical experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Flink for batch and streaming workloads.
  • Experience building data pipelines for machine learning model training, inference, and feature stores, with familiarity with AI agent data needs.
  • Extensive experience with high-throughput messaging and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, or Azure, preferably AWS and its data services.
  • Strong experience with data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT orchestration, relational and NoSQL databases, and advanced data modeling.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
  • Exceptional analytical, debugging, distributed-systems optimization, communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring abilities.
  • Experience in consumer-facing or streaming industries is preferred.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMySQLPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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