Interfere
Software Engineer, Data
$160K–$250K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
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- Visa sponsorship for exceptional international candidates.
About the job
Build and operate the data infrastructure that ingests, processes, stores, and retrieves product signals for Interfere’s product-quality platform.
What you'll do
- Build high-throughput ingestion and real-time stream-processing systems.
- Design storage, query, indexing, and retrieval infrastructure for product data and AI agents.
- Develop schema, data-quality, cost, observability, and reliability systems.
What they ask for
- Production data infrastructure experience at meaningful scale, including throughput and cost pressures.
- Fluency in distributed-systems tradeoffs.
- Ability to independently define and ship solutions to ambiguous data or infrastructure problems.
- Ability to explain pipeline behavior, failure modes, and tradeoffs clearly.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-throughput streaming or stream-processing systems such as Kafka, Flink, Kinesis, or Materialize.
- Background in observability, telemetry, session-replay data, or vector/hybrid retrieval for AI/ML.
Pay
$160K – $250K USD base salary; 0.6% – 1% USD total pay
Tools
ClickHouse, Kafka, Flink, Kinesis, Materialize, Go, Rust, Python
AI focus
Build indexing and retrieval infrastructure that helps agents and models find relevant context; work closely with AI/ML teams.
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