Member of Technical Staff
Beacon Software4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own a core platform area end-to-end, including design, implementation, operations, and long-term technical direction.
- Build and operate a cross-portfolio data lake, feature and semantic layers, ingestion pipelines, and canonical data models.
- Develop backend services, identity and access controls, audit systems, workflow orchestration, APIs, and SDKs.
- Design multi-tenant data, compute, credential, cross-cloud, and regional-residency isolation.
- Build workflow and action runtimes with typed actions, idempotency, retries, rollback paths, approval gates, and audit trails.
- Create observability and evaluation infrastructure including traces, metrics, structured logs, replay systems, regression suites, and safe A/B testing.
- Design safety controls such as autonomy tiers, kill switches, per-action blast-radius caps, and audit surfaces.
Requirements
- Staff- or principal-equivalent senior engineering depth with experience building and operating systems that real businesses depend on.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, with the ability to work across these languages.
- Production experience with distributed systems concepts including idempotency, partial failure, retry semantics, eventual consistency, schema evolution, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Experience building or operating non-trivial modern data infrastructure using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, dbt, Iceberg, Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
- Ability to design maintainable services and APIs, document systems, support migrations, and prioritize developer experience.
- Comfort making foundational technical decisions in an ambiguous, evolving product environment.
- Interest in modern ML and the ability to build infrastructure around models developed by others.
- Prior Staff or Principal Engineer experience, experience with Iceberg, Polaris, Snowflake, or Databricks at scale, multi-tenant SaaS or platform infrastructure experience, production LLM-driven systems experience, applied research experience with offline RL, contextual bandits, or sequential decision-making, and relevant open-source contributions are bonus qualifications.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGoGoogle BigQueryPostgreSQLPythonRustSnowflakeTypeScript
About Beacon Software
Beacon Software acquires, operates, and grows vertical market software businesses serving Main Street sectors, offering permanent ownership rather than buy-to-flip exits and shared product, AI, and go-to-market resources. It builds an AI-native platform and provides in-house engineering to modernize portfolio products while keeping each company’s brand and customers intact. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and focuses on niche operational software across the real economy.