5 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $440k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems.
- Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure for real-time workloads.
- Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines.
- Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines for querying, processing, and moving data at petabyte scale.
- Debug and optimize distributed systems for reliability and performance under load.
- Collaborate with ML, product, and infrastructure teams to unblock critical data workflows.
Requirements
- Proven expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms.
- Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala, or similar systems languages.
- Hands-on production experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
- A track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with minimal guardrails.
Benefits
- Equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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