Software Engineer, Data Platform
General Matter2 hours ago
Base Salary
$125k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines for kHz-class, high-channel-count sensor telemetry.
- Design and operate time-series storage and industrial data historians for retention, query performance, and schema evolution.
- Build ingestion and streaming services with buffering, backpressure, idempotency, and no silent data loss.
- Define and promote software engineering practices, data architecture, schema standards, testing strategies, and operational best practices.
- Collaborate with controls, test automation, and visualization teams to support downstream analytics and live dashboards.
- Lead debugging, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements across the ingestion-to-storage stack.
- Set engineering standards and build and mentor high-performance engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience building data pipelines, streaming systems, or backend data infrastructure.
- Strong production-level experience with Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with high-throughput data ingestion and time-series or historian storage.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and data reliability.
- Experience with high-reliability, on-premise, 24/7 deployments in safety-critical environments.
- Preferred experience with InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, OT/industrial data historians, MQTT, DDS, OPC-UA, Kafka, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and Grafana.
- Preferred background in industrial automation, aerospace, energy, finance/trading, telecom, or scientific research.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $125,000–$220,000 annually.
- Full-time hires may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options.
- Access to medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About General Matter
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