Staff Backend Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of hardware sensor data points per second
• Develop durable, efficient database solutions to support real-time reads and large-scale analytics workloads
• Pioneer data architecture by integrating recent innovations in streaming and storage, including cloud-native and diskless designs
• Help define engineering culture, standards, and processes
• Collaborate closely with peers on architecture, design, code reviews, and scaling strategies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another STEM discipline
• 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or data engineering roles
• Hands-on experience with event-time-based stream processing or streaming SQL systems using tools like Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam, or similar
• Proficiency with relational and time-series databases like PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, TimescaleDB, or equivalent
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems or low-latency backend services, ideally written in Go, Rust, or Python
• Familiarity with DevOps and cloud infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, and Terraform
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with telemetry data from hardware systems, high-throughput ingest pipelines, or columnar storage formats like Apache Arrow and Parquet
• Experience building resilient, performant systems that scale to billions of records
• Curiosity about new data paradigms and eagerness to evaluate and integrate emerging tools and techniques

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card status is required to meet ITAR / EAR compliance requirements

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 per year
• Plus equity and benefits