Staff Software Engineer, Cassandra Platform
- Remote, United States
- Senior
- Posted 10 days ago
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Staff-level role on a database platform team that runs hundreds of production Cassandra clusters for retail and eCommerce systems, with on-call duty.
About the role
Work centers on cutting operational toil through automation and on raising reliability standards across teams. The scope is staff level because of the environment's scale and the cross-team influence required.
At a glance
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- Remote scope
- Remote, United States
- Seniority
- Senior
- Skills
- Cassandra, Java, Python, Ruby, Shell scripting, Distributed systems
- Posted
- 19 Oct 2026
- Last checked
- 22 Oct 2026
What you will do
- Build automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions and health checks of Cassandra clusters
- Cut repetitive operations with internal tools and self-service capabilities
- Take part in on-call, lead incident response and run root cause analysis
- Improve reliability, performance and cost across a large distributed database footprint
- Apply AI-assisted tooling to diagnostics, alert quality and engineering productivity
What they look for
- Backend or platform development in Java, Python, Ruby and shell scripting
- Hands-on operation and troubleshooting of distributed systems in production
- Ability to spot manual processes and replace them with scalable automation
- Experience with on-call and incident response
Nice to have
- Collaboration across engineering, cloud and reliability teams
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The posting lists it as remote for people in the United States.
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What experience is needed?
It is a senior role. The posting asks for: backend or platform development in Java, Python, Ruby and shell scripting; hands-on operation and troubleshooting of distributed systems in production; ability to spot manual processes and replace them with scalable automation. Skills it names include Cassandra, Java, Python, Ruby.
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