Software Engineering Technical Leader- Backend Data Engineer
Required skills
Bachelor’s + 12 years of experience or Master’s + 8 years of experience in software engineering or related field, with a focus on building cloud systems, including expertise in database, data lake and streaming systems Experience building scalable data pipelines using Spark, Flink, or similar technology Experience programming with two or more languages such as Go, Python, Bash, Java, C, C++ Experience with AI-based code tools such as Codex, Claude Code, etc
Preferred skills
Experience deploying or using Data Lakes/Warehouses, including storage, table format, and processing Experience building and deploying AI-backed functionality, either customer-facing features or internal productivity tools Expertise with Druid or another time-series analytics database Expertise with Kafka or another streaming system
Technologies
Go, Python, Spark, Flink, Druid, Kafka, Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Streaming systems
Responsibilities
Design and build forward-looking, performant, well-tested software with a specific focus on Go and Python. As a backend data engineer, you will focus on supporting both internal and external use cases Design and build data pipelines that support Hyperfabric’s data APIs and notification streams, leveraging Druid, Kafka and more. Benchmark and tune these pipelines to support our workloads at high throughput and low latency and with fault tolerance Deploy new functionality into production with rollout/rollback planning as well as monitoring and alerting Collaborate with product managers, other software engineers, and QA through all stages of the software development lifecycle Contribute to the team through technical design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring
Seniority
Technical Leader
Domain
Data Engineering, AI, SaaS, Networking, Data Centers, Generative AI, Cloud Systems