Staff II Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
StackAdaptabout 2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team.
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time scenarios.
- Contribute hands-on as needed while enabling the team to execute effectively.
- Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka.
- Work with high-volume storage systems and databases to persist and serve data efficiently.
- Partner with Data, ML, Product, and Platform teams to support evolving requirements.
- Improve code quality, testing practices, system reliability, and observability.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize impact and align with company objectives.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services.
- Proven ability to lead technical direction and drive large, cross-team initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with comfort working in ambiguous, complex domains.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams.
- Ability to think strategically, lead technically, and drive high-impact, scalable solutions.
- Hands-on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability).
- Maintains an AI-forward approach to software engineering.
- Bonus: Familiarity with AdTech, event-driven architectures, or analytics systems.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary.
- Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally.
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthdays off.
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program.
- Health benefits from day one of employment.
- Work from home reimbursements.
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office.
- Robust training and onboarding program.
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books, etc.).
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning.
- An awesome parental leave program.
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture.
- Social and team events.