Staff Software Engineer - Curated Data

You will design and build the control plane for the curated data lifecycle, including dependency-aware orchestration, backfills, restatements, retries, partial failures, and recovery. You will define data contracts, choose and own production architectures, build reliable data-quality alerting, and break ambiguous problems into sequenced work that engineers can deliver.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane for the curated data lifecycle
• Orchestrate dependency-aware models, backfills, restatements, retries, failure handling, and recovery
• Choose and own the architecture for models, services, and jobs through production
• Design contracts between ingestion and curation
• Build alerting and data-quality signals
• Work across Go, Kotlin, Rust, Python, and SQL
• Break large problems into sequenced work that other engineers can own

Requirements

• Experience as a backend engineer with deep data-systems expertise or as a data engineer with strong software-engineering expertise
• Experience shipping production services
• Experience building or materially extending orchestration and scheduling systems
• Experience handling schema evolution and data correctness for downstream consumers
• Experience building or operating stateful stream processing in production
• Strong SQL and data-modeling skills on large datasets
• Computer science fundamentals and distributed-systems understanding
• Ability to independently debug and drive root-cause analysis
• Ability to use AI tools effectively and understand their failure modes
• Clear written communication skills in a distributed team

Benefits

• Equity package
• Employee equity scheme with a heavily discounted strike price and a 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks of PTO plus local public holidays that can be swapped
• Remote-first work with flexible working hours
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Quarterly offsites
• Yearly travel allowance
• Home-office setup allowance or coworking-desk payment
• Dune swag