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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-throughput streaming pipelines for behavioral event data.
- Ensure event data is correctly enriched, routed, and made available to downstream consumers in compliance with governance requirements.
- Improve pipeline reliability, observability, latency, memory usage, Kafka throughput, and operational health.
- Collaborate with personalization, analytics, advertising, and other downstream teams to evolve the platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations and own the operational health of production systems.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and operating high-throughput data-processing systems in production at meaningful scale.
- Proficiency in Java or a similar JVM or statically typed language such as Kotlin, Scala, Go, or Rust.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Flink or a comparable stream-processing framework such as Dataflow or Spark Streaming.
- Working knowledge of Apache Kafka, including producing, consuming, throughput tuning, and operational behavior under load.
- Production operational experience, including on-call work and attention to latency, memory, and reliability.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes in a production context, including running workloads and owning their reliability.
- Strong signals include experience with behavioral or event-data pipelines, observability, latency and compression optimization, and complex aggregations, rollups, or enrichment.
- Interest in data privacy and compliance at the processing layer and experience with platforms where behavioral data is a core product are nice to have.
Benefits
- The role includes an on-call rotation.
- Candidates should be prepared to interview within the week, complete the interview loop within 30 days, and participate in a live pair-programming session using their own IDE.
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