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Senior Software Engineer, Big Data

Location

California + 7 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | District Of Columbia | New Jersey | New York | Maryland | Massachusetts | Washington

Posted

137 days ago

Salary

$160.9K - $257.1K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Big Data

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• Design, build, and operate large-scale Kafka and Flink infrastructure • Lead critical initiatives in streaming platform modernization • Develop and enhance streaming control planes, APIs, and provisioning systems • Improve platform reliability through SLO definition and automation • Enable simplified stream processing patterns for teams • Evaluate and integrate modern streaming ecosystem capabilities • Mentor engineers and contribute to distributed systems design

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Significant production experience with Kafka and/or Flink
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala
  • Experience operating services in cloud environments (for example, AWS)
  • Experience designing scalable, multi-tenant systems
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
  • Strong systems design skills
  • Experience collaborating across platform and product teams

Benefits

  • Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location

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