Staff Software Engineer (Ingestion Platform)

- Experience designing APIs and platform abstractions, including schema evolution, serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication such as gRPC - Experience with data movement patterns and systems such as Kafka, BigQuery, S3, GCS, Apache Iceberg, Flink, or comparable technologies - Strong software development experience in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Scala - A product-minded engineer who advocates for platform users and can turn ambiguous customer and partner needs into simple, reliable, and scalable solutions - BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience - Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform concepts, including controllers, custom resources, workload identity, infrastructure automation, and multi-cluster deployments - 10+ years of hands-on experience building internet-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platforms used by other developers - Deep experience designing and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines or platform services, including streaming and batch processing - Experience building low-code or self-service developer platforms, or curiosity to learn, is a strong plus - Demonstrated technical leadership and a history of guiding teams through complex, cross-functional initiatives with meaningful impact - A strong understanding of observability and operational excellence: metrics, logging, alerting,…