MetTel

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

MetTel
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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
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