Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lakehouse Infra)

About the role

Own quarterly delivery for a data lakehouse infrastructure team, guiding engineers through open problems and keeping large scale offline data access dependable for analytics and machine learning.

What you will do

• Take charge of your team's quarterly objectives and steer engineers through unclear, open-ended problems
• Work with product, design and analytics on ideas, technical limits and trade-off decisions
• Spot issues in projects, processes, technology or business, then push for and lead fixes
• Track service health with metrics, escalate when necessary and share on-call and maintenance duties
• Raise the bar on code review and design standards and promote them across teams
• Coach teammates through feedback and example

What they look for

• Four or more years building and shipping large scale backend systems in Python or Kotlin
• Proven work creating distributed systems with high availability using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Ability to plan delivery of a major feature or component with simple, extensible design
• Skill at making substantial changes in a large codebase and building safe practices around them
• Clear spoken and written communication for a worldwide engineering team