Staff Software Engineer Data

You will own the data platform end to end while remaining hands-on. You will define its roadmap, design production data models and search systems, build pipelines and a warehouse, establish metrics and data-quality practices, instrument the customer lifecycle, and make pragmatic architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the data platform roadmap
• Own production data modeling, schemas, and access patterns
• Lead multimodal indexing and search across images, documents, and text
• Build and own data pipelines across production databases, product events, and third-party systems
• Build the warehouse, governed metrics, and self-service tooling
• Instrument the customer lifecycle
• Set standards for data quality, contracts, and observability
• Make architecture and build-versus-buy decisions

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering, data engineering, or related experience
• Experience owning complex data systems
• Experience defining and building data architecture
• Expertise in relational database design, schemas, indexing, query patterns, and consistency tradeoffs
• Experience building production data pipelines, warehouses, and analytical data models
• Experience building production search systems and evaluating retrieval quality
• Experience shipping reliable production code and making architecture decisions
• Ability to translate business needs into durable data systems

Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus
• Equity awards
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully covered for employees and 75% covered for dependents
• Fertility and family-planning support
• 401k plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Seattle office gym, sauna, and bike parking
• Free lunch three days per week
• Flexible work hours