Sr. Software Engineer, Data Streaming Systems

About the role

The Applied Intelligence Data Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in large-scale, real-time data streaming systems. This role involves architecting, building, and maintaining distributed, event-driven systems using Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, and modern reactive frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build real-time streaming applications using Java and Kafka.
• Develop high-throughput, low-latency streaming applications.
• Design event-driven microservices that process, enrich, and route real-time data at scale.
• Implement reactive, non-blocking architectures for high concurrency and resilience.
• Architect scalable distributed systems, including Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and event schemas.
• Build horizontally scalable services deployed on Kubernetes.
• Contribute to event-driven architecture standards and platform design decisions.
• Optimize performance for throughput, latency, and resource efficiency.
• Implement observability using metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Build automated testing strategies for streaming workflows, including integration and load testing.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response.
• Deploy and manage containerized services in Kubernetes environments in GCP or similar cloud environments.
• Define autoscaling strategies and best practices for resource management.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Partner with Data Engineers to integrate streaming systems with batch pipelines and data platforms.
• Work with Software Engineers and Product Managers to expose real-time APIs and services.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to enable real-time feature pipelines and inference services.
• Lead architectural reviews and mentor engineers in distributed systems best practices.
• Drive code quality, documentation, and system design standards.
• Advocate for scalable, secure, and maintainable engineering solutions.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience and strong foundation in distributed systems engineering and event-driven architecture.
• Proven track record of building and operating large-scale data streaming systems in production.
• Ability to balance architectural rigor with practical delivery timelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Self-motivated and committed to engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Java, including concurrency, multithreading, and JVM performance tuning.
• Strong experience with reactive frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor, or similar.
• Deep understanding of asynchronous, non-blocking system design.
• Extensive experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, streams, schema registry).
• Strong understanding of partitioning strategies, offset management, rebalancing, and failure recovery.
• Familiarity with Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar stream-processing frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of autoscaling, rolling deployments, and production reliability patterns.

Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $124,000.00 - 186,000.00.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program, and PTO.
• Bonus eligibility.

Additional Information

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, offers free and paid streaming services including Pluto TV and Paramount+. For more information, visit www.paramount.com/careers.