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Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform

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13 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

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 supporting real-time workloads.
  • Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines.
  • Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines enabling teams to query, process, and move data at petabyte scale.
  • Debug and optimize distributed systems, focusing on 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 experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop in production.
  • Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
  • Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure.
  • Comfortable working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with minimal guardrails.

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short & long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance and various other discounts and perks.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkGoRustScala

Categories

AI & MLData Engineering