Data Infrastructure Engineer

Key Skills

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Apache Airflow, AWS, Big Data Technology, Design, DevOps, DynamoDB, Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot

Job Description

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 Infrastructure Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you'll take ownership of the foundational components powering our data storage and streaming services, ensuring they are resilient, scalable, manageable, and highly available. You'll work closely with our microservices architecture teams, empowering them to move with confidence in our data’s integrity and availability. If you’re excited by the challenge of working with a diverse set of technologies—from streaming (Kafka, Pulsar) and query engines (Trino, Druid) to persistent data stores (Postgres, MySQL, OpenSearch)—this could be the perfect fit.

Why Attentive needs you

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and extensible big data systems to power our core products and enable business growth.
• Develop automation strategies that streamline data services and ensure a stable infrastructure for all engineering teams.
• Champion DevOps practices to foster a culture of quality and enhance developer productivity.
• Lead peer design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate team collaboration and technical expertise.
• Continuously improve system reliability, availability, and scalability through your technical leadership and expertise.

About you

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Infrastructure Engineer or in similar roles like Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or Backend Engineer with a data storage focus
• Experience managing and operating data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Kafka, Druid, Trino, OpenMetadata, and Redis
• Proficiency in managing and operating cloud infrastructure at scale using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Datadog. Familiarity with cloud computing concepts like access control and instance management.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze trade-offs, collaborate with developer peers, and adopt a solutions-oriented approach.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery strategies in a cloud environment, along with monitoring and logging tools.
• You embrace blameless post-incident analysis and are committed to continuous improvement.

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.
• Attentive’s backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, and hosted via AWS.
• Our infrastructure is Kubernetes-centric, with Argo CD leveraged for deployments, Terraform for configuration management, and Spacelift as configuration control.
• As a Data Team, we support a number of different data storage solutions across several paradigms.
• MySQL and PostgreSQL as Relational Database solutions.
• Redis and Valkey as the Cache offering.
• AWS DynamoDB and PlanetScale are Horizontally Scalable Database solutions.
• Apache Druid and Trino for Real-Time Analytics.
• Apache Pulsar as a Streaming Data platform.
• Apache Airflow and Temporal as Workflow engines.
• AWS S3 as Object storage.

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 US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $195,000 annually + equity + benefits
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location