Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Job Description

• Build and have end-to-end ownership of Liftoff's core engines, including distributed data stores, data processing pipelines, and high-performance services. • Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue. • Partner with the product team to plan short and long term strategy • Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review. • Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Qualifications

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience) and 8+ years software engineering experience. • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale systems • Excited to work on large scale data stores and distributed systems. • Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures. • Strong coding ability - experience in Go and Clojure is a plus, but not required • Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems). • A high bar for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship. • Sets ego aside in pursuit of finding the best solution, no matter where it comes from. • Self-motivated and ability to get things done. • Ability to lead across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems. • A healthy sense of fun! • Nice to have: Experience in big data engines such as Trino, Spark • Experience with Hive metastore, Iceberg or Delta lake • Experience with data stores such as Redis or KVRocks

Benefits

• Full compensation package including equity and health/vision/dental benefits • Base salary ranges based on candidate location and experience • Multiple openings available • Open to hiring at Senior level