Staff Software Engineer, Product Data Platform

What you'll do

• Set architecture direction and lead critical initiatives across multiple teams, including query performance and distributed-system scalability.
• Identify and resolve performance, consistency, reliability, and scaling problems; contribute hands-on to production issues.
• Raise technical quality through design reviews and architecture decisions, and mentor senior engineers.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale, including technical leadership on multi-team initiatives.
• Track record leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a platform or infrastructure environment.
• Deep hands-on expertise with relational databases, including query plan analysis, indexing, and optimization.
• Ability to resolve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, influence teams without authority, communicate effectively, and mentor senior engineers.

Nice to have

• OpenSearch / Elasticsearch or similar systems in production; streaming data platforms (Flink, Kafka) or semantic/analytics layers in production.
• Experience with multi-tenant or regulated data-heavy platforms, or building platform foundations for AI or agentic product experiences.

Pay

$240,000 - $300,000 (expected salary range; base pay)

Tools

JVM, Kotlin, Java, Postgres, Aurora, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Flink

AI focus

Build and operate platform infrastructure that powers AI-powered data products, including an agentic reporting experience; platform foundations for AI or agentic products are a bonus.