Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform
LaunchDarklyabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$158k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed, data-intensive backend systems.
- Own and improve production data infrastructure, including streaming and batch pipelines.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues across data pipelines and distributed systems.
- Partner with product managers and engineering teams to deliver reliable data capabilities.
- Write and review technical proposals and contribute to architecture decisions.
- Improve engineering standards, testing practices, and operational processes.
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Experience designing and operating reliable production systems for large data volumes.
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline and batch-processing technologies.
- Experience with analytical and operational data stores.
- Strong programming experience in Go, Python, SQL, Scala, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with distributed systems and backend engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and observability tools.
- A strong ownership mindset for production systems.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkClickHouseDatabricksDatadogElasticsearchGoPostgreSQLPythonScalaSQLTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering