Staff Engineer
Raft Company Website2 months ago
Rome, NY, USA or Tacoma, WA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$160k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build data infrastructure and platforms using Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams.
- Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines for comprehensive data operations.
- Architect, develop, and implement large-scale streaming applications.
- Design and support real-time data platforms processing more than a billion events daily with millisecond-level latency.
- Provide high-level architectural direction, make technical decisions, solve complex engineering challenges, and mentor Senior and below Engineers.
- Collaborate hands-on with customers and engineering teams supporting Department of Defense data-platform missions.
Requirements
- Five or more years of relevant hands-on industry experience.
- In-depth experience building and managing fault-tolerant, data-intensive platforms with Kafka, Pinot, Flink, or similar streaming technologies.
- Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
- Experience with data management, including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage.
- Experience building and releasing software in cloud-native environments.
- Experience with Maven, Gradle, and NPM or similar package and dependency managers.
- Deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns.
- Ability to obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment.
- Minimum Secret clearance required.
- U.S. citizenship required for employment eligibility.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki, Helm Charts, Istio, enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure, Python, GoLang, and technical leadership.
Benefits
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Take-as-needed paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
- Education and training benefits.
- Annual budget for technology and gadgets.
- Team off-sites and referral bonuses.
- Remote work with occasional onsite presence as required; the role may require up to 25% travel.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaElasticsearchGoGradleGrafanaIstioJavaKibanaKubernetesMavenMongoDBMySQLnpmPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonScala
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Raft Company Website
Raft is a defense technology company that builds AI/ML, autonomous data fusion, and cloud-native software platforms for U.S. military and government agencies. It develops distributed data systems, DevSecOps/GitOps platforms, and applications to operate at scale in secure environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held firm is backed by Washington Harbour Partners, which invested $60M in private equity funding in 2024.