Figma

Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

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23 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$153k - $376k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large-scale distributed data systems for analytics, AI/ML, and business intelligence.
  • Develop reliable, efficient, and scalable batch and streaming data solutions.
  • Manage and evolve Snowflake, the ML Datalake, orchestration infrastructure, and real-time ingestion systems.
  • Improve data reliability, consistency, compliance, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers, data scientists, product engineers, and business stakeholders to develop scalable data solutions.
  • Drive technical decisions and best practices for data ingestion, orchestration, processing, and storage.
  • Mentor and support engineers and foster technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, including designing and building distributed data infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong expertise in batch and streaming data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, or Dagster.
  • Demonstrated impact-driven problem-solving experience in fast-paced environments with a focus on reliable and performant systems.
  • Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with Golang, Python, SQL, dbt, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, or Dagster.
  • Preferred experience includes building AI/ML data infrastructure, model serving, feature stores, dataset compliance, reverse ETL, personalization platforms, real-time event ingestion, data governance, access control, or large-scale platform cost optimization.

Benefits

  • Full-time position available from a US hub or remotely in the United States.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off.
  • Paid sick leave, holidays, flexible PTO for eligible exempt employees, and other legally compliant leave benefits.
  • Additional benefits may include recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
  • Equity, and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkdbtGoPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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