The Data Engineering team builds tools and systems that make Gusto's data consistent, user-friendly, and helpful. This helps our teams make decisions using data and provide intelligent, customized experiences to our customers.

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can take loosely defined problems and drive them end-to-end—from framing the problem and aligning stakeholders to designing, building, and delivering durable data solutions. You’ll partner closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that drive real business and customer impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of industry experience in data engineering building scalable data pipelines and data products
• Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Scala, or Java)
• Proven experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and ETL workflows, with hands-on dbt experience for reliable, testable, and maintainable data transformations.
• Hands-on experience ingesting data from diverse sources, including APIs, databases, SaaS applications, and event streams.
• Strong foundation in data modeling, schema design, and data quality best practices, with functional experience working on cloud platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and data observability to ensure reliability and trust in data systems
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production-grade data pipelines
• Proven ability to optimize performance and cost across data workflows and storage systems
• Functional understanding of how to leverage AI and automation in data engineering — building self-service tools, intelligent pipelines, and agents that automate repetitive tasks
• Exemplar problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on clarity, empathy, and shared ownership

Compensation Details

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $155,000-$185,000/yr in Denver, $170,000-$200,000/yr in Los Angeles, and $190,000-$220,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

How you will make an impact:

You’ll work as a member of Team Q. Team Q manages Iterable technologies and libraries powering the myriad of queueing problems across Iterable.  At peak parts of the day these queues reach nearly 1 million publishes a second! Team Q is building towards continuously enriching self-service platforms that allow every Iterable team to plug into this high scale torrent of messages - seamlessly. 

As a Senior Software Engineer on Team Q at Iterable, you'll have the opportunity to direct how we support massive real-time traffic ensuring fairness and predictability for our customers.

Your work will include designing and implementing our next-generation queueing library, including how we dynamically prioritize incoming traffic and schedule+predict long-running workloads. You’ll work closely across teams in Iterable to understand our rich set of queueing use cases to help form the solutions on the team roadmap.

We believe in a strong, friendly engineering culture and value personal and professional growth. You'll get to work on what you like and one of our explicit goals as a team is to build a uniquely fun and growth-oriented culture. Our team of hackers and thinkers is small, lean, and empathetic.

One of our core values is a growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you, please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.

How you will make a difference:

• Design and build libraries to accelerate the building of Customer Products
• Build products to gracefully handle widely varying traffic patterns in queues
• Collaborate with a small and nimble engineering team
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks

We are looking for people who:

• Experience designing, developing, and operating asynchronous systems
• Experience with queueing technology (RMQ, SQS, Kafka, etc)
• Proficiency  in at least one modern programming language (we use Scala)
• A passion for developer experience
• Passion for learning and a team player

Bonus Points

• Experience managing operations in datastores used in services
• Experience with Scala ZIO and reactive domain modeling
• Contributor to a queueing technology

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance 
• Monthly Professional Development allowance 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $133,500 - $212,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial. In addition, we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development, among others.

YOUR MISSION

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will be instrumental in implementing and auditing security controls for mission-critical space systems that must meet stringent government compliance requirements. You will work at the intersection of security engineering, compliance frameworks (NIST 800-171/800-53), and modern cloud-native architectures to ensure our satellite mission control software and flight systems meet Department of Defense security standards.

You will design and implement application-level security controls including comprehensive audit logging, incident response capabilities, access controls, and security monitoring—all while working closely with product engineering teams to shift security to ensure optimal outcomes.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can build security controls from the ground up and see the direct impact of your work on national security space operations, this mission is for you.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Create security architecture documentation and operational security guides for government authorization processes
• Drive vulnerability management program with defined SLAs for remediation (30/90/180 days by severity)
• Perform security code reviews for Elixir, Python, C++, and JavaScript codebases
• Collaborate in the triage and management of security automations using SAST (CodeQL, Semgrep), SCA (JFrog Xray), and DAST tools
• Collaborate with engineering teams to address security findings and implement secure coding practices
• Develop and deliver security training to software engineers and systems administrators across the organization
• Create and manage incident response playbooks specific to application security events
• Evaluate and integrate third-party security solutions to enhance overall security capabilities

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in application security, product security, or security engineering
• Hands-on experience implementing security controls for compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or CMMC
• Strong software engineering skills with ability to write production-quality code in at least one language (Python, Rust, Elixir, C++, or similar)
• Experience with cloud security (Azure preferred, AWS or GCP acceptable)
• Solid understanding of secure architecture principles including:
• Threat modeling and risk assessment
• Authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, ABAC)
• Cryptography and key management
• Defense-in-depth and Zero Trust principles
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with engineering teams to implement security controls without blocking velocity
• Eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance

Preferred Skills:

• Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• Direct experience with NIST 800-171 Rev 3 or NIST 800-53 implementation projects (gap analysis, control implementation, evidence collection)
• Experience with Department of Defense Impact Levels (IL2/IL4/IL5/IL6) or STIGs (Secure Technical Implementation Guides)
• Familiarity with Elixir/Erlang/Phoenix or other functional programming ecosystems (Scala, Haskell, F#, OCaml)
• Experience with Azure Government Cloud or other FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments
• Experience using Ghommit tool
• Background in DevSecOps or Platform Security Engineering:
• GitOps workflows and CI/CD security
• Infrastructure as Code security (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)
• Kubernetes security (Pod Security Standards, network policies, service mesh)
• Experience with security incident response including detection engineering and SOAR integration
• Familiarity with aerospace, defense, or other highly regulated industries (finance, healthcare, critical infrastructure)
• Previous experience in startups or fast-paced environments with ability to build processes from scratch
  
  

COMPENSATION

• Base Salary:  Long Beach - $150,000 to $205,000, Denver - $145,000 to $195,000

• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave 

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience. 

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work Location—Successful candidates will be located near Denver or Long Beach. While we observe a hybrid work environment, some work must be done on site. #LI-Onsite
• Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.

This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below.

How you will make an impact:

Engineering at Iterable is responsible for the core platform used by our growing customer base. Making this platform easy to use and attractive to non-technical users is extremely important. Our Engineering team works closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and SRE to bring next-generation marketing solutions to our massively scalable platform. We believe in building an Engineering culture guided by our company values which you can learn more about here.

One of our core values is Growth Mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can continuously learn. If this is an idea that excites you, please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description

Team Description? 

How you will make a difference:

As a Senior Software Engineer working on the User Data Infrastructure team, you will:

• Design and develop software for a highly scalable and reliable multi-tenant system
• Architect and develop solutions to scale a complex platform that reaches millions of users
• Enhance observability of data at ingestion, query, and storage layers
• Improve automation of our Elasticsearch cluster management system

We are looking for people who have :

• Relevant industry experience building production-ready, scalable applications
• Proficiency  in at least one programming language (ideally Scala and/or Java)
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases  
• Passion for learning -- always improving yourself and the team around you

Our Technology Stack:

• Programming Language: Scala, Java
• Databases: Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis
• Infrastructure: Kafka, AWS, Pulsar
• Other Relevant Technologies: Docker / Kubernetes

Bonus Points

• Experience working with large code base
• Experience with functional programming and the JVM

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance 
• Monthly Professional Development allowance 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $133,500 - $212,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial. In addition, we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development, among others.

What we do

Our Lead Senior Staff Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who will participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering the foundational experiences that make The Trade Desk platform exceptional for the traders who rely on it every day.

The Desk Fundamentals team sits within the Core Workflows engineering organization and owns the platform UI framework that the rest of our buying-side engineering teams build on top of. Our mission is straightforward but demanding: deliver consistent experiences, logical navigation, and user-friendly page components at platform scale. We own the shared design patterns and frontend frameworks that empower other teams to ship features quickly and reliably. We build and evolve the Portfolio Views that give traders clarity into performance across partners and advertisers. We maintain the Programmatic Table — one of the highest-traffic surfaces on the platform — and we are the team that sets the bar for what quality looks like across The Trade Desk's core product.

At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. This means that based on your interests and background, you will have the opportunity to work on large-scale, distributed systems — for example, coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, advanced data visualizations, and interactive user interfaces, to name a few.

Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. It's important that we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long-term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously improving efficiency.

What you’ll do

It's the best of both worlds — you'll get a chance to exercise your technical leadership and build up your people management and leadership skills. Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission includes the following:

Technical leadership

• Actively review designs, code, and architecture across the team's surface area, from the platform framework to the data-rich tables and panels that traders use every day.

• Deliver meaningful, technical, and hands-on contributions to the team's objectives, from architectural decisions on our shared UI framework to concrete pull requests.

• Understand strategic business priorities and communicate with the team on how their work connects to the broader roadmap and company goals.

• Drive the technical direction for how other engineering teams within Core Workflows — and across the broader organization — build on top of the platform framework the Desk Fundamentals team owns.

Project level processes and execution

• Collaborate with the PM team to develop the roadmap and MVP plans, translating complex UX and platform consistency challenges into clearly scoped, executable engineering work.

• Develop execution plans including resources, milestones, and timelines for roadmap initiatives.

• Define and track the business KPIs and user-facing metrics that connect the team's engineering work to meaningful outcomes, ensuring the team understands the impact of what they ship.

• Continuously analyze and optimize team efficiency, removing blockers and ensuring the team ships with quality.

• Establish and deliver on team commitments, and communicate important developments and changes to area leadership and other stakeholders.

• Measure and maintain the quality of the team's contributions, including platform reliability, consistency, and developer experience for the teams building on top of what we own.

People management

• Manage a small team of talented engineers, serving as both their technical leader and their people manager.

• Help team members develop career growth plans and accelerate toward their next level.

• Give regular and effective feedback, and hold weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports.

• Conduct annual reviews and make compensation recommendations.

• Foster an inclusive, psychologically safe team culture where diverse perspectives are genuinely valued.

Who you are

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

• You have a solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), DevOps, and agile methodologies.

• You have a solid understanding of cloud computing and the trade-offs of large-scale, distributed web applications.

• You have a solid understanding of design patterns and software architecture, including frontend systems design and component-based architectures.

• You have experience contributing to the professional growth of software engineers, and a proven track record of growing multiple senior engineers and tech leads.

• You have experience providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams, including platform or framework work where your team's decisions directly affect the velocity and quality of teams outside your own.

• You have experience leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity.

• You have experience driving major, strategic, company-wide initiatives with significant risk.

• You have experience hiring and conducting interviews.

• You are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala.

• You have 13+ years of software development engineering experience.

• You have 1+ years of experience directly managing people.

• You have a Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or a relevant engineering-related field, or equivalent experience. Not everyone has the same level of access to opportunities. What is most important to us is what and how you can contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you have.

• You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas: full-stack web development, frontend framework design, data visualization and table-heavy UI systems, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, and AI/LLM integration into production applications.

We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own and be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.

A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We are not seeking engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and find answers to the questions yet to be asked.

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

CSQ127R318

As a Big Data Solutions Architect (Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the regional Manager/Lead.

The impact you will have:

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
• Work with engagement managers to scope variety of  professional services work with input from the customer
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

What we look for:

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Working knowledge of MLOps 
• Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
• Travel to customers 20% of the time
• Databricks Certification

How you will make an impact:

As a Software Engineer II at Iterable, you'll independently develop, maintain, and deliver moderate-complexity projects on your team. You'll be working with the Delivery team which builds and maintains the pipeline responsible to getting messages to end users on time. Ultimately, we help enable our customers to provide relevant, timely, and joyful experiences to their own users.

Our Engineering team works closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and SRE to bring next-generation marketing solutions to our massively scalable platform. We believe in building an Engineering culture guided by our company values which you can learn more about here.

You are recognized as a subject matter expert in a particular focus area and consistently demonstrate high-quality, on-time delivery. You take ownership of the full lifecycle of your code — from design through production monitoring and maintenance. One of our core values is a growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you, please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.

You'll get to:

• Execute on core work with minimal guidance in a way that increases team velocity while maintaining high quality
• Break down projects into milestones, provide accurate cost estimates, and proactively keep stakeholders informed
• Architect and develop solutions on a complex platform that reaches millions of users
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, product, and design to conceptualize and build new product features
• Write well-structured, maintainable, documented, and tested code with an eye toward future reuse and modularization
• Diagnose and fix tricky bugs, prevent incidents through appropriate testing, and maintain a track record of drama-free deploys
• Provide in-depth code reviews and contribute to design reviews with respectful, effective communication
• Recognize potential scalability issues, bring them to the Architecture Support Group (ASG), and participate in remediation
• Collaborate actively to unblock teammates, give and receive hard feedback with respect and empathy, and solicit input from people of diverse backgrounds
• Participate in recruiting and develop effective interviewing skills

We are looking for people who have:

• 3+ years of relevant software development experience
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (ideally Scala and/or Java)
• Experience building production-ready, scalable web applications
• Experience with Elasticsearch and/or other relevant technologies such as Postgres and data pipeline systems
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate in a highly remote/distributed environment
• Ability to facilitate discussions within your team and cross-functionally
• A desire to be part of a values-driven Engineering team
• Passion for learning — always improving yourself and the team around you
• Willingness to take on-call responsibilities
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)

Our Technology Stack:

• Programming Language: Scala
• Databases: Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, CRDB
• Infrastructure: Pulsar, Kafka, AWS
• Other Relevant Technologies: Docker / Kubernetes, React

Bonus Points:

• Experience with end-to-end, integration, and performance testing
• Exposure to enterprise systems

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance 
• Monthly Professional Development allowance 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $114,500 - $188,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial. In addition, we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development, among others.

How you will make an impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Iterable, you'll be responsible for the core platform used by our growing customer base. Making this platform easy to use and attractive for non-technical users is extremely important. 

Our Engineering team works closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and SRE to bring next-generation marketing solutions to our massively scalable platform. We believe in building an Engineering culture guided by our company values which you can learn more about here.

You will be working with the Analytics Application team that provides accurate and actionable insights to our customers so that they can establish a clear understanding of the effectiveness of their marketing efforts. Ultimately, we help enable our customers to provide the most relevant and joyful experiences to their own users.

One of our core values is a growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you, please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.

You’ll get to:

• Own the backend of the product with a huge amount of autonomy
• Architect and develop solutions to scale a complex platform that reaches millions of users
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, product, and design to conceptualize and build new product features
• Provide direction for your team and guide standards across the Engineering organization
• Improve Engineering processes, tooling, and efficiency
• Mentor and guide team members 

We are looking for people who have:

• Relevant industry experience building production-ready, scalable web applications
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (ideally Scala and/or Java)
• Experience with Elasticsearch and/or other relevant technologies such as Postgres and data pipeline systems. 
• Ability to facilitate discussions within your team and cross-functionally
• A desire to be part of a values-driven Engineering team
• Passion for learning -- always improving yourself and the team around you

Our Technology Stack:

• Programming Language: Scala
• Databases: Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis
• Infrastructure: Pulsar, Kafka, AWS
• Other Relevant Technologies: Docker / Kubernetes, React

Bonus Points

• Experience with large-scale performance testing 
• Experience with data processing and advanced methodologies
• Experience with functional programming and the JVM
• Experience using AI IDEs or workflows

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $133,500 - $212,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial. In addition, we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development, among others.

How you will make an impact:

Our Data In Flight (DIF) team owns the core pipelines that ingest and route user and event data into Iterable, powering identity, segmentation, and real-time personalization. We are building a multi-tenant data platform that application teams can build on top of, with clear contracts, SLOs, and guardrails. Our product and our Elasticsearch clusters are multi-tenant, and we run Elasticsearch on Kubernetes using Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK).

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a track record of operating Elasticsearch-backed data platforms in multi-tenant SaaS. You’ll be a hands-on IC who both designs distributed systems and acts as a platform “product owner” for app teams: understanding their needs, shaping the platform roadmap, and defining stable interfaces between product and data infrastructure.

How you will make an impact:

• Own and evolve core Data In Flight services (ingestion, user and event APIs, identity, system events) with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost.
• Lead the Elasticsearch strategy for our multi-tenant live user and event data: index and mapping design, shard strategy, and safeguards across shared clusters.
• Design and enforce platform contracts (APIs, data models, SLAs, and usage limits) that let product teams move quickly while keeping the data platform safe and scalable.
• Work across other data and application teams on initiatives such as Elasticsearch upgrades, guardrails, resharding, and event retention.
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and reviews, turning operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems, data modeling, and pragmatic use of Elasticsearch.

What you'll bring:

You likely have many of the experiences below, but not necessarily all of them:

• Hands-on Elasticsearch expertise in production:
• Supporting customer-facing features or platforms backed by ES
• Designing schemas and queries for high-cardinality, multi-tenant workloads
• Operating large clusters (capacity planning, scaling, incident response)
• Multi-tenant platform experience:
• Building shared data services used by multiple product teams
• Implementing rate limits, quotas, and noisy-neighbor protections
• Thinking in terms of contracts and SLOs, not one-off integrations
• Strong distributed systems background:
• JVM-based services (Scala/Java) and event-driven or streaming architectures
• Comfort with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), messaging, and caches
• Staff-level impact and collaboration:
• Leading cross-team projects from design through rollout
• Translating technical decisions into clear business and product trade-offs
• Clear written communication (RFCs, design docs, post-incident reviews)

Nice To Have:

• Experience with Scala and the Play framework or similar JVM stacks.
• Prior work on core user data platforms (identity, profile stores, event pipelines, or CDP-like systems).
• Exposure to FinOps / infra cost optimization in data-heavy systems.
• Experience in MarTech / AdTech or other high-volume, low-latency data domains.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance 
• Monthly Professional Development allowance 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $156,00 - $242,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial. In addition, we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development, among others.