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Senior Software Engineer(Distributed Systems)

$160K–$285K

USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2026

Experience: 8+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience; 5+ years building or operating production data platforms, lakehouse platforms, or distributed data systems.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Build and operate a scalable data-product platform and develop production data models, workflows, and marts for engineering and analytics teams.

Build reusable platform capabilities and operate the data platform for reliability, scalability, governance, and security.
Develop and maintain production dbt projects, analytical SQL, data models, tests, documentation, and semantic definitions.
Design and operate Airflow workflows; optimize Trino and Iceberg workloads; automate deployment with Terraform and CI/CD.

8+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience, including 5+ years building or operating production data platforms, lakehouse platforms, or distributed data systems.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining production dbt Core projects, with strong production SQL and data-modeling experience.
Experience with Airflow or another production workflow orchestration platform, Trino or another distributed SQL/query engine, and a lakehouse technology such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
Experience with cloud object storage and metadata/catalog systems, a production programming language, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, and production data access controls and security.

$190,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary); $160,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary)

dbt Core, Airflow, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3 Tables, AWS Glue Catalog, Terraform, Apache Superset

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