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Senior Platform Engineer (Java) - Data Infrastructure

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24

Core

Building and maintaining a high-throughput, low-latency data infrastructure platform for real-time personalization and decisioning at billion-scale event volumes.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (Java)

Builds

Unified Customer Data Platform (CDP), analytics, and ML stack processing 350M+ events/month

Domain

Data Infrastructure / Real-time Streaming / High-scale Backend Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Java 21, Spring Boot WebFlux, Kafka, Apache Flink, ClickHouse, Postgres, Neo4J, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, JVM performance tuning (GC, heap profiling), distributed systems failure modes management, high-throughput event ingestion, low-latency query path optimization

Preferred skills

Experience tuning pipelines processing millions of events per hour, proactive bottleneck identification

Technologies

Java 21, Spring Boot WebFlux, Kafka, Apache Flink, ClickHouse, Postgres, Neo4J, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing pipelines; Optimize low-latency query paths across distributed databases; Tune JVM performance including GC and heap profiling; Ensure infrastructure stability under real-world load conditions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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