Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems

About the role

Join a startup building an agentic data lakehouse platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems, you'll work on a greenfield project to build scalable data infrastructure that transforms enterprise data into actionable insights at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work on a greenfield OLAP lakehouse project to build the data platform for the agentic era
• Design and implement distributed data system components, with a focus on join optimization and query performance
• Collaborate across infrastructure, services, and frontend teams to deliver data platform features
• Ship reliable, scalable data infrastructure that supports enterprise analytics

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a data systems, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer
• Experience with big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop)
• Strong background in distributed systems
• Comfort diving into any part of the system-infrastructure, services, or frontend
• Proficiency in Haskell and/or TypeScript
• Track record of shipping products from zero to one
• Experience with databases and database optimization
• Strong data focus and understanding of data-driven systems
• Experience with OLAP lakehouse/data lakehouse architecture and query optimization
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and their real-world applications
• Location
• New York, NY, United States

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