Staff Data Platform Software Engineer (Java Architect, Kafka, Kubernetes)

The Distributed Systems group has teams that provide streaming API for higher-layer applications and/or work to scale our application platforms. Depending on the nature of the data storage systems include data in motion such as time-series databases or message bus systems. Our largest customers constantly push the limits of backend storage in terms of data size IO speed and concurrent transaction number. Performance reliability and scalability are always at the core of our work. 

Our largest customers constantly push the limits of backend storage in terms of data size IO speed and concurrent transactions. Performance reliability and scalability are always at the core of our work.

What you get to do in this role:

• Help design and build highly innovative interactive high-performing solutions with scalability and quality.
• Help design software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs.
• Build high-quality clean scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews Unit testing etc.)
• Design and develop tools libraries and frameworks with long-term platform mindset thinking for high modularity extensibility configurability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with peers and cross team members to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design implementation test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Help contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite.
• Manage projects with material technical risk at a team level.
• Explore and evaluate new technology and innovation to continuously improve platform capability and functionality

Qualifications :

To be successful in the role:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes decision-making or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools automating workflows analyzing AI-driven insights or exploring AIs potential impact on the function or industry.
• Experience in using AI Productivity tools such as Cursor Windsurf etc. is a plus or nice to have
• 10 years of experience with Java or a similar OO language
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Experience with data structures algorithms object-oriented design design patterns and performance/scale considerations
• Experience with streaming multiple systems (Kafka Pulsar etc.)
• Experience working with large-scale Kafka deployments.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with relational databases: Oracle MySQL Postgres
• Good knowledge and experience with fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Strong fluency with Java programming as well as good understanding of Java memory model and garbage collection
• Experience with JVM performance tuning and optimization as well as experience in diagnosing performance bottlenecks. 
• Working knowledge of concurrency sockets networking operating systems memory management runtimes portability etc 
• Has the experience and ability to diagnose issues and troubleshoot.  

Additional Information :

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Accommodations

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time