Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

About the role

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, implementation, and reliability of our foundational data platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Proactively identify opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades.
• Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies.
• Provide technical leadership, including: upholding and upleveling engineering standards across the organization, mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialties in back-end systems, specifically related to building large-scale data storage, streaming, and warehousing systems.
• Extensive experience in various database technologies (MongoDB, Postgres), streaming/processing solutions (Kinesis, Flink, Spark), indexing/caching (ElasticSearch, Redis), and various data query engines (Trino, Presto, Snowflake, etc.).
• Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects.
• Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working fluently with standard containerization & deployment technologies like Kubernetes and various public cloud offerings.
• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms and data systems.
• Experience driving cross functional collaboration and communication at an organizational or broader level.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI).
• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimizations of cloud based data platforms.
• Experience defining a data lifecycle strategy and designing/implementing tooling for data privacy (i.e. GDPR) needs.
• Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups.
• Excitement to work with AI technologies.

Skills

• Experience with various database technologies (MongoDB, Postgres).
• Experience with streaming/processing solutions (Kinesis, Flink, Spark).
• Experience with indexing/caching (ElasticSearch, Redis).
• Experience with data query engines (Trino, Presto, Snowflake, etc.).
• Experience with containerization & deployment technologies like Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms and data systems.
• Experience with software development and distributed systems.
• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimizations of cloud based data platforms.
• Experience with defining a data lifecycle strategy and designing/implementing tooling for data privacy (i.e. GDPR) needs.
• Experience with scaling products at hyper-growth startups.
• Experience with AI technologies.

Benefits

We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Pay

$252,000 - $315,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time

Location

San Francisco, New York, Seattle

Company

Scale

Equal Opportunity Employer

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