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Staff Software Development Engineer - Data Platforms

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3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design architectures, build proofs of concept, and evaluate trade-offs for new services and migrations.
  • Build and maintain scalable, accurate, clean, real-time event collection and data pipelines.
  • Develop data infrastructure supporting AI model training, inference, feature stores, AI agents, and the team’s MCP server.
  • Detect, alert on, and resolve data quality issues while improving data trust and availability.
  • Enhance existing systems using current tooling and engineering standards, while optimizing ingestion, storage, and processing costs.
  • Own the complete development lifecycle and services within the workstream, from ideation through deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational procedures for mission-critical data systems.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally, document architectures, and break high-level designs into services and tasks.
  • Govern company-wide data assets, audit data posture, reduce time to insight, and make data accessible to stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers, share knowledge through blogs and articles, and improve team productivity.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive professional experience in data engineering.
  • Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, high-throughput data platforms, ideally in consumer-facing or streaming environments.
  • Experience with systems handling hundreds of millions of events or requests per minute, billions of daily events, and petabytes of storage.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
  • Deep practical experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Flink for batch and streaming workloads.
  • Experience building data pipelines for machine learning training, inference, and feature stores, with familiarity with AI agent data requirements.
  • Extensive experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, or Azure, preferably AWS and its data services.
  • Strong experience with data warehousing and data lake architectures, including Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi.
  • Expertise building, optimizing, and orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache Airflow, Prefect, or comparable workflow systems.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and DynamoDB.
  • Advanced data modeling skills, including dimensional, Kimball, and data vault approaches.
  • Exceptional analytical, debugging, optimization, communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership abilities.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMySQLPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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