Staff Software Engineer, Streaming

Required

• 10+ years of production engineering experience, with deep specialization in realtime data infrastructure and event streaming systems
• Production experience designing and operating WAL-based or log-structured replication systems, such as PostgreSQL logical replication, Debezium, Kafka Connect, or equivalent CDC frameworks at scale with an understanding of delivery guarantees, consumer lag management, and failure recovery
• Deep understanding of event streaming correctness: ordering guarantees, at-least-once vs. exactly-once delivery semantics, idempotency requirements, and how those properties propagate to downstream consumers
• Experience leading batch-to-streaming migrations replacing polling or batch-driven synchronization with event-driven architectures without disrupting dependent consumers
• Fluency in a systems-level language (Rust, Go, or C/C++) used to build high-throughput, low-latency data plane components in production
• A track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives — driving decisions through influence and producing documentation that holds up over time
• Strong written and verbal communication — you produce architectural guidance that the broader engineering organization depends on
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity — at this level, you will be handed problems, not plans, and are expected to identify the right approach and drive it from first principles to production
• Strong experience supporting 24/7 production on-call rotations, including responding to alerts and resolving incidents outside of standard business hours
• (Optional) Preferred Qualifications:
• Systems-level programming experience in Rust for high-throughput streaming pipeline components, such as binary protocol handling, I/O-intensive services, or data plane infrastructure where performance and correctness are both hard constraints
• Experience with open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet) as the storage layer bridging streaming ingestion and analytical query workloads