Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

The MAX team drives a critical part of the platform that intersects both product and infrastructure spaces. The products we manage allow users to gain valuable insights into their data and make important decisions from those insights in ways that no other platform can. An immense data warehouse and query stack that we oversee powers these capabilities, and it analyzes some of the largest datasets that our enterprise customers can throw at us. Our horizon includes building predictive analysis tools, real-time decisioning engines, and agentic toolchains. We are biased for action, value, and succeed together in a highly collaborative environment. We are bullish on leveraging AI coding tools, such as Codex and Claude to accelerate our engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own batching and real-time streaming systems that handle large amounts of structured customer, product, and event data.
• Building full-stack experiences and toolsets to help users visualize their data, understand their customers, surface the most impactful insights, and take meaningful action based on those insights.
• Integrate our services into the operating core of the businesses we serve.
• Change how marketers use their customer data through unique and intuitive product experiences.
• Build agentic tools for our customers to use, and an MCP to allow external AI tools to take advantage of the Amperity platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with large-scale data-oriented systems.
• Bonus if you have experience with Trino, Spark, Delta Lake, & Kubernetes.
• Track record building, scaling, and managing production environments.

Qualifications

• Excited about using functional languages (like Clojure!)
• Passionate about building elegant user experiences on top of complex technologies.
• Open-minded, collaborative, inclusive, and inspired by your customers' success.
• Curious about using AI coding tools such as Claude and Codex to help accelerate your development.

Skills

• Experience with open source large-scale database engines such as Spark & Trino.
• Microservices architecture using Clojure as the primary programming language.
• A web stack based on ClojureScript and the React family of tools.
• Cloud-first architecture using technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes in a multi-cloud platform.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as Claude and Codex.

Benefits

• 100% employee healthcare coverage.
• Transportation subsidies.
• A comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks.
• Employee experience perks like events and activities, both in-person and remote.
• Self-managed PTO.

Pay

Base Salary: $178,000-$245,000. Individual compensation within this range will depend on several factors, including your skills, experience, education/training, geographic location and the level at which you join. We also consider internal equity, market conditions, and overall business needs.

Schedule

We operate on a four in-office days each week and one designated remote workday on Wednesdays.