Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform

• →10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platforms used by other developers.
• →BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• →Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Scala.
• →Deep experience designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines or platform services, including streaming and batch processing.
• →Experience with data movement patterns and systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies.
• →Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication such as gRPC.
• →Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform concepts, including controllers, custom resources, workload identity, infrastructure automation, and multi-cluster deployments.
• →A strong understanding of observability and operational excellence: metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs, incident response, data quality, and safe migration practices.
• →A product-minded engineer who advocates for platform users and can turn ambiguous customer and partner needs into simple, reliable, and scalable solutions.
• →Demonstrated technical leadership and a history of guiding teams through complex, cross-functional initiatives with meaningful impact.
• →Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams and stakeholders.
• →Experience building low-code or self-service developer platforms, or curiosity to learn, is a strong plus.

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