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Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance – Foundations
Location
California + 18 moreAll locations: California | Colorado | Connecticut | District Of Columbia | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
65 days ago
Salary
$166K - $210K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance – Foundations
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• Define and drive multi-year architecture roadmaps for large-scale data ingestion and processing infrastructure • Own end-to-end platform initiatives • Partner with vendors on technical integration • Collaborate with various teams to embed governance and compliance controls • Optimize infrastructure spend at scale • Write compelling architecture documents • Mentor engineers on the team • Collaborate with Data Science, ML Platform, Ads Infrastructure, Finance Engineering, and Product teams
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
- Experience in modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats — Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi
- Hands-on experience with distributed query and compute systems (Trino, Spark, ClickHouse)
- Proven depth in event-driven infrastructure: Kafka for high-throughput data ingestion and Flink (or equivalent)
- Track record owning and executing major platform transitions
- Experience building business cases for infrastructure investments
- Exceptional written technical communication
- Strong ownership and comfort operating in ambiguity
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible work hours
- Professional development opportunities
- Annual refresh grants
- New hire equity grants
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