Senior Software Engineer – Streaming, Data-Intensive Systems
Italy
Full Time
3 weeks ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsKafkaKubernetesScalaGoMentoringCommunicationRemote Work
About this role
Role Overview
We are looking for Data engineers with a solid software engineering foundation, who enjoy working close to the data infrastructure layer and solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale.
Design efficient, data-intensive backend services to collect, process, and store petabytes of data, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and system behavior under load.
Challenge the status quo by redesigning and unifying multiple inherited data pipelines, driving the transition to a streamlined, harmonized data architecture.
Investigate, debug, and optimize system behavior across CPU, memory, I/O, and concurrency dimensions as data volumes grow.
Lead large-scale projects that involve complex systems and cutting-edge technologies, driving impactful changes across the organization.
Develop innovative data formats and exchange mechanisms that optimize functionality while minimizing costs and maximizing performance.
Share knowledge and increase the team's expertise by introducing new ideas and mentoring fellow engineers.
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the primary data pipeline, addressing growing data volumes and functional requirements.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data solutions align with the organization's strategic goals.
Requirements
Whether you are a mid-level or senior engineer (6+ years of experience), you have strong fundamentals in computer science and software engineering (data structures, concurrency, memory management, and performance).
You have worked with dynamic complex systems in a rich ecosystem with lots of integrations.
You have hands-on experience tackling large-scale, high-volume systems, and understand the trade-offs required to make systems scale reliably.
You care about production quality, including testing, monitoring, logging, and observability, and you understand why these are critical in data-intensive systems.
You have experience with cloud providers such as AWS and Azure, with a comfort in writing infrastructure as code.
You have strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment on-site but also in async with people around the world.
You have the ability to thrive in a flat team structure, actively contributing to solving technical challenges alongside peers.
You are proactive, full of ideas, with a critical yet constructive attitude and a positive approach to bringing thoughtful input.
Nice to have:
Proficiency in Go and/or Scala
Experience with ClickHouse and/or SingleStore
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience using Kafka
Tech Stack
AWS
Azure
Cloud
Distributed Systems
Kafka
Kubernetes
Scala
Go
Benefits
Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
Lifestyle allowance
A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts