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Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform

United States, New York 200000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 06, 2026
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Arcesium seeks an exceptional Principal Software Engineer – Data Platform to join our Technology team. The Principal Software Engineer on this team will help architect and implement the next generation of Arcesium’s data platform. This person should have a strong background in distributed systems, modern data lake technology, and infrastructure and will be able to lead high visibility engineering efforts.

Job Responsibility

  • Build next generation technology used by some of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world
  • Design exciting new products for our offering with best of breed distributed systems technologies
  • Drive solutions around data modeling, data pipelining & orchestration, data transport, and access control
  • Propose and review solution design across engineering teams as they onboard onto the data platform
  • Lead high-visibility engineering efforts on some of our data intensive core components
  • Take a hands-on technical leadership role in guiding a group of equally talented engineers to own and deliver high quality solutions under tight market-driven deadlines

Requirements

  • Strong academic background in computer science
  • 5+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer at a top startup or technology firm
  • Expertise in at least one of: Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology
  • Expertise in at least one of: Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
  • Expertise in at least one of: Iceberg, delta lake, or other data lake table formats and supporting tooling
  • Hands-on experience in building near real-time data ETL, ELT and normalization
  • Fluency with Java, Kotlin, Scala, or any other JVM language
  • Familiarity with relational databases like Postgres, MSSQL, or Sqlite
  • Track record and appetite for building and launching new data products from scratch
  • Experience guiding and mentoring highly skilled engineers and driving large scale engineering projects across the firm

What we offer

  • Variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire
  • Medical and prescription drug coverage
  • 401k contribution matching

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