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Senior Staff Software Engineer

USA - Oakland💼 Full-time💰 $232,338–$232,338🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Ensure product base meets performance standards by designing performance-enhancing features, executing tests, analyzing data to identify issues, and resolving them proactively.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Performance Engineering)

Builds

Data pipelines powering the modern data stack for thousands of companies

Domain

Data infrastructure / Cloud platforms

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Architecting reliable distributed systems, building backend services and data systems, algorithms and data structures, Java, databases, observability tools

Preferred skills

Performance engineering background, system level programming, cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Databricks)

Technologies

Java, JUnit, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured, Bazel, BuildKite, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog

Responsibilities

Develop and debug code to identify and fix performance issues, Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics, Build proof of concepts to maximize product performance, Build and maintain a platform focusing on performance and resilience, Communicate and align strategy with engineering team members, Actively engage in design and code reviews

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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