Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

• Own and evolve our end-to-end event pipeline architecture, from Kafka ingestion through Snowflake analytics, setting technical direction for data infrastructure
• Design and architect distributed data systems that scale to orders of magnitude more data volume while maintaining world-class query performance
• Lead initiatives to build and optimize CDC (change data capture) pipelines and streaming data transformations at massive scale
• Establish best practices for data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability across the organization
• Drive strategic technical decisions about data modeling, infrastructure architecture, and technology choices
• Mentor engineers and elevate data engineering practices across analytics, product, and engineering teams

• 10+ years of experience as a data engineer or software engineer working on data infrastructure with deep expertise in distributed systems
• Expert-level knowledge of event streaming platforms, especially Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, stream processing)
• Extensive hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance optimization, cost management, and data modeling at massive scale
• Strong understanding of relational databases (particularly Postgres) and experience with CDC patterns and replication strategies in distributed environments
• Proven track record architecting and leading major data infrastructure initiatives that handled orders of magnitude growth
• Experience establishing data engineering best practices and driving technical strategy across organizations
• Strong communication skills and experience influencing technical direction across engineering, analytics, and leadership

• Experience with dbt (data build tool) for transformation workflows
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and security best practices
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Background working with high-growth SaaS products at massive scale

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