Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

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HexData analytics
Fully remote anywhere within the US Eastern timezone, US Eastern timezoneFull-TimeStaff
Salary$221,250 - $348,500; Offers Equity
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years of backend engineering experience
Required Skills
PythonKubernetesTypeScriptAlgorithmsData StructuresCoaching

Requirements

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Strong focus on computation, performance, database or storage optimization, and systems architecture.
  • Experience with parallel execution strategies and caching strategies.
  • Understand the trade-offs involved in remote data warehouse computation.
  • Strong systems thinking and sound intuitions around storage, database performance, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Track record solving difficult, large-scale systems design problems involving significant data and operational complexity.
  • Experience writing code and reviewing teammates' code.
  • Ability to develop well-reasoned technical solutions from abstract problems and roadmap designs with clear milestones.
  • Python and/or TypeScript required; experience with both is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve the graph-based system that compiles, plans, and runs user notebooks.
  • Propose and build compute components that support faster, smarter execution.
  • Drive parallel execution strategies and caching approaches to reduce latency and unnecessary round trips to external data warehouses.
  • Instrument complex systems to surface and diagnose performance problems.
  • Collaborate across engineering and product on platform capabilities, including an internal query language that compiles to connected warehouse dialects.
  • Author and review technical proposals and mentor engineers implementing designs.
  • Propose and roadmap long-term designs with clear milestones across quarters.
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