General Matter
Software Engineer, Data Platform
$125K–$220K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must currently be a US Citizen and be capable of obtaining and maintaining a US Q clearance.
About the job
Designs and operates the data acquisition, storage, and streaming platform that reliably captures sensor telemetry from test stands and production systems and serves it to analytics and visualization tools.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry pipelines, ingestion services, and time-series storage.
- Set data architecture, schemas, testing, and operational practices; improve reliability through debugging and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with controls, test automation, and visualization teams to support downstream analytics and live dashboards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience building data pipelines, streaming systems, or backend data infrastructure.
- Production-level experience in Python and SQL; hands-on high-throughput ingestion and time-series or historian storage experience, with understanding of distributed systems and data reliability.
- Experience with high-reliability, on-premise, 24/7 deployments in safety-critical environments; currently a US Citizen with capability to obtain and maintain a US Q clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with time-series databases, in-memory data stores, streaming/pub-sub middleware, industrial historians, observability, infrastructure-as-code, or visualization layers.
- Technical leadership in engineering standards and team building or mentoring; experience in high-reliability or data-intensive environments.
Pay
$125,000–$220,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, MQTT, DDS, OPC-UA
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