Staff Software Engineer Data

Our Mission:

6senses mission is to multiply what matters: growth retention and efficiency. We envision a future where companies teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team Stay Curious Do The Right Thing Own the Outcome and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves take risks act with integrity and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

Job Title : Staff Software Engineer - Data

Location :Bengaluru IN

About the Role :

This is a senior individual contributor role for engineers who enjoy owning complex systems endtoend influencing technical direction across teams and solving problems where correctness scale and reliability really work on problems that dont have obvious answers and your decisions will shape how data flows through 6sense for years to come.

What will you own: :

Lead LargeScale Data Systems :

• Design build and evolve highthroughput batch and streaming data pipelines that process billions of records.
• Own core datasets that power product features analytics and ML systems.
• Build systems that handle enrichment deduplication identity resolution and confidence scoring at scale.

Drive Architecture & Technical Direction :

• Define longterm architecture for foundational data platforms.
• Lead complex multiquarter initiatives such as platform migrations major refactors and new data foundations.
• Balance data correctness freshness cost and performance in realworld production systems.

Ensure Reliability & Data Quality :

• Own SLAs/SLOs for data freshness accuracy and completeness.
• Design data quality frameworks reconciliation mechanisms and observability for critical pipelines.
• Lead rootcause analysis and long term fixes for production issues.

Collaborate Across the Company :

• Partner with Product Analytics Data Science Platform and GTM teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
• Act as a technical point of contact for third party data integrations and vendors.

Raise the Engineering Bar :

• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical standards across the org.
• Lead by example in design reviews operational ownership and incident response.
• Help shape engineering best practices around scalability reliability and maintainability.
• Leverage generative AI and AI coding tools to accelerate developer productivity engineering workflows and automation of repetitive tasks

What Were Looking For :

Experience :

• 10 years of experience building backend or data intensive systems.
• Proven ownership of mission critical data platforms in production.
• Experience operating at Senior or Staff engineer scope.
• Understanding of AI-native software development practices including automated code generation AI-driven testing and human-in-the-loop review systems
• Proven ability to adopt and drive modern engineering paradigms particularly integrating AI into development workflows to improve productivity quality and delivery speed

Technical Skills :

• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Deep experience with bigdata and streaming systems such as Spark Kafka Flink Hive Trino/Presto.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems data consistency and fault tolerance.
• Handson experience with AWS based data infrastructure.

Engineering Mindset :

• Comfortable working in ambiguity and making high impact technical decisions.
• Strong intuition for data modeling system design and long term maintainability.
• Ability to influence teams without formal authority.

AIEnabled Development :

• Experience using AI tools (e.g. Copilot ChatGPT Cursor) to improve productivity in design coding and debugging.
• Strong judgment on validating correctness and performance.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with company or people data identity graphs or enrichment pipelines.
• Exposure to data privacy compliance or governance at scale.
• Experience supporting AI/ML driven product features.

Why This Role Matters :

The systems you build will directly impact:

• Product accuracy and customer trust
• GTM targeting and revenue outcomes
• The scalability of 6senses AIdriven platform

You wont just ship features youll shape the foundation.

OneLine Summary :

• Own and evolve large scale business critical data platforms that power 6senses AIdriven products.

Our Benefits:

Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage paid parental leave generous paid time-off and holidays quarterly self-care days off and stock options. Well make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams at home or in one of our offices.

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

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