2 months ago
Base Salary
$145k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-volume data ingestion and orchestration pipelines for network, device, satellite terminal, and third-party vendor telemetry.
- Build and evolve stateful real-time event processing and detection logic at scale.
- Extend workflow and rule engines with configurable client-specific flows, authoring, validation, and versioning.
- Own data models, APIs, and services supporting event and incident monitoring views.
- Implement observability, retry semantics, end-to-end tracing, and data lineage.
- Contribute to lakehouse table and partition design, schema evolution, storage lifecycle, and query performance.
- Build and operate services on containerized infrastructure using the team ’s deployment and infrastructure patterns.
- Write technical designs, participate in code reviews, collaborate with stakeholders, and share a light on-call rotation.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools as a primary development workflow and validate their output.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial production data-pipeline and workflow or rule-engine development.
- Strong Java or Python skills, ideally both.
- Production stream-processing experience with technologies such as Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, or Beam.
- Practical Apache Kafka knowledge including partitioning, compaction, consumer groups, and schema evolution with Avro or Schema Registry.
- Experience with Dagster or a comparable workflow or ETL orchestrator such as Airflow or Prefect.
- SQL fluency and production experience with a columnar or lakehouse query engine.
- Experience operating Kubernetes workloads and troubleshooting distributed systems under pressure.
- Familiarity with unit testing, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- The position is based in NYC.
- The U.S. base salary range is $145,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually, varying by work location and qualifications.
- The role includes a light on-call rotation.
- MetTel offers a collaborative environment focused on professional growth, skill development, and knowledge sharing.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache BeamApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkClickHouseGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesPrestoPythonSnowflakeSQL
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About MetTel
MetTel provides managed telecommunications and networking services—voice, data, SD-WAN, mobility, and IoT—over a global private network for businesses and government agencies. The privately held company, founded in 1996 and headquartered in New York City, sells subscriptions and managed service contracts that consolidate carriers and simplify network operations. Customers include many Fortune 500 organizations, and MetTel has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services from 2020 through 2024.