Company
Engineering
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,DistributedDataSystems
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“Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems. Skills: Distributed data systems, Data lakehouse, Query performance. Build data platform. Design distributed components”
What You'll Achieve.
Transform data into insights
Industry & Context.
Data optimization
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years experience, Big data systems experience, Distributed systems background, Haskell or TypeScript proficiency, Shipping products from zero to one, Databases and optimization experience, Data focus, OLAP lakehouse architecture experience, Query optimization experience
Nice to Have
Experience with Apache Spark, Experience with Hadoop
What You'll Do.
Design distributed components
Implement distributed components
Optimize join performance
Optimize query performance
Collaborate across teams
Deliver data platform features
Ship data infrastructure
Support enterprise analytics
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Infrastructure teams; Services teams; Frontend teams
Full Job Description
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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 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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