Senior Software Engineer, Data Lake Platform

Key Skills

3D data processing, Aartificial intelligence, Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, AWS, Data Lake, Data Modelling, DynamoDB, GoLang, Google BigQuery, GraphQL, Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Postgres, Python Programming, REDIS, Snowflake, Spring Boot, Terraform, TypeScript

Job Description

Who we are

Our engineering department consists of 200+ people across multiple teams, such as application development, infrastructure, data platform, machine learning, and security. We believe our company will win in the long run through product innovation. To get there, we obsess over iteratively delivering customer value through rapid prototyping and data-driven decision-making.

We’re looking for a self-motivated, highly driven Senior Software Engineer to bolster our Data Lake Platform team. Our team is focused on building the data platform to support data driven products and strategic outcomes for our customers. We do this by providing an extensible and flexible compute platform to access highly available, mission critical data sets.

Why Attentive needs you

• You are constantly improving the quality of the project you are working on, both via code contributions as well as long-term advocacy for larger-scale changes
• Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance
• You understand how to partner with Product Management and Design to meet the user’s needs without sacrificing quality or accruing tech debt
• Design and build a self-service data platform that powers Attentive’s AI, ML, and analytics needs
• Implement best practices and standards for managing high volume of data
• Work closely with engineering teams across Attentive, enabling them to experiment quickly and build new data products
• Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency ETL pipelines

About you

• You have at least 5 years of development experience with either Java, Python or Go
• You have development experience with data stores such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks Lakehouse, AWS Athena, Apache Trino, or Presto
• You have development experience with open source data processing technologies, such as Apache Flink, Spark, or Airflow
• You’ve experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or Hudi
• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC
• You have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale and maintaining infrastructure as code via Terraform
• You are excited by new technologies but are conscious of choosing them for the right reasons

Our scale

• 8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022
• We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per day
• Our production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ services
• Our streaming services process over 80 billion events per month

What we use

• We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
• Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
• Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright

You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.

For US based applicants:

• The standard base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $225,000 annually + equity + benefits
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.