CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer – Extreme Platform ONE (10548)

San Jose, California, United StatesFull-time$170k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Design and build scalable real-time data ingestion pipelines and observability platforms to process high-volume network telemetry and enable intelligent networking experiences.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform & Observability)

Builds

Real-time data pipelines, persistent storage solutions, and performance monitoring platforms for global networking infrastructure.

Domain

Networking, Cloud Platforms, Distributed Systems, Data Engineering

Required skills

Kafka, Numaflow, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Elasticsearch, Go, Java, Python, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Query Optimization

Preferred skills

Multi-tenant time-series data platforms, Observability/Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Container Security, API Security Testing

Technologies

Kafka, Numaflow, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Elasticsearch, Java, Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Terraform

Responsibilities

Design real-time data ingestion pipelines using Kafka and Numaflow; Architect enrichment pipelines for raw event data; Own persistent storage strategy across ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, and Elasticsearch; Tune performance monitoring platform for high concurrency; Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the full data pipeline; Design for horizontal scalability and establish capacity planning practices.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC