Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Delivery

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JobgetherData and Analytics
Based in United StatesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive U.S. base salary range of $240,000–$330,000
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Job Details

Required Skills
KafkaData engineeringGoRedshiftDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Extensive experience shaping technical direction across multiple teams, domains, or large-scale platform areas, with the seniority and judgment expected of a Staff or Senior Staff-level engineer.
  • Deep expertise building scalable backend services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications in production environments.
  • Strong system-design capabilities across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
  • Highly effective at influencing engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders and aligning them around complex technical strategies.
  • Ability to design reusable systems and capabilities that create leverage across multiple teams.
  • Strong data-quality mindset and ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
  • Strong product and business judgment, connecting engineering investments to customer outcomes and long-term value.
  • Proven experience mentoring senior engineers, raising engineering standards, and influencing technical culture.
  • Strong programming skills, with experience in Golang preferred.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the long-term architecture, technical strategy, and engineering direction for Data Delivery and related data and analytics systems.
  • Lead high-impact initiatives spanning multiple teams, systems, and product areas, helping engineering groups align around scalable and sustainable technical solutions.
  • Build and guide platform capabilities that enable teams to deliver new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics functionality more efficiently.
  • Make critical system-design decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage technologies, serving layers, and operational patterns.
  • Partner with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to translate organizational priorities into actionable technical roadmaps.
  • Identify systemic opportunities across reliability, scalability, data quality, observability, developer experience, and operational ownership, then drive improvements across the relevant technical areas.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, including senior-level contributors, through architecture reviews, design discussions, technical guidance, and hands-on leadership.
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