Staff Engineer

Role overview Lead technical direction and hands-on engineering for a real-time data platform that combines information from hundreds of sensors to support time-sensitive operational decisions. The system processes more than a billion events a day, so the work spans large-scale streaming architecture, data pipelines, and reliability, alongside mentoring engineers and guiding design decisions.

Responsibilities - Design and build fault-tolerant streaming infrastructure and large-scale data applications. - Develop ETL pipelines and data services that make incoming information enriched, searchable, and useful to operators. - Make architecture and technical decisions, applying sound software design patterns to complex problems. - Collaborate directly with engineers to deliver and operate the platform in a cloud-native environment. - Share technical knowledge and mentor engineers across the team.

Requirements - At least five years of relevant hands-on industry experience. - Strong experience building and operating data-intensive, fault-tolerant platforms with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pinot, or Flink. - Experience with large relational and non-relational databases, including systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch, for low-latency workloads. - Working knowledge of data management, including ETL, governance, and storage, and experience releasing software in cloud-native environments. - Familiarity with package and dependency managers such as Maven, Gradle, and NPM, plus deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns. - U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance are required; Security+ certification must be obtained within the first 90 days.

Nice to have - Kubernetes, Helm, service mesh, cloud monitoring and logging experience, or enterprise cloud infrastructure support. - Python or Go automation experience, and prior technical lead responsibilities.

Benefits and work setup Remote within the continental U.S., with occasional onsite work and travel of up to 25%. The listed salary range is $160,000–$210,000. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) match, flexible paid time off, holidays, and education and technology budgets.