Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

2 months ago

Remote, United States or New York, NY, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$221k - $349k/yr

Responsibilities

Evolve the graph-based execution architecture that compiles, plans, and runs user notebooks, including building new compute components.
Design parallel execution and caching strategies that reduce latency and unnecessary round trips to external data warehouses.
Instrument complex systems to identify and diagnose performance problems.
Collaborate with engineering and product teams on platform capabilities such as an internal query language compiling to connected warehouse dialects.
Author and review technical proposals, mentor engineers, and guide implementation of ambitious designs.
Propose and roadmap long-term technical designs with clear quarterly milestones.

10+ years of backend engineering experience focused on computation, performance, database or storage optimization, and systems architecture.
Experience with parallel execution, caching, remote data warehouse computation, storage, database performance, algorithms, and data structures.
Track record solving difficult large-scale systems design problems involving significant data and operational complexity.
Ability to develop technical solutions from ambiguous problems and roadmap designs across multiple quarters.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including leading technical work on a remote-first team.
Python and/or TypeScript experience is required; experience with both is preferred.
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure is nice to have.
Some frontend experience and willingness to occasionally implement features end to end is a plus.

Fully remote within the US Eastern timezone, with an option to work from the NYC office.
Comprehensive health benefits.
Flexible paid time off.

51-200 employees

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