Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Group

Role Description

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on our Data Infrastructure group, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data infrastructure. This includes:

• Building data-related infrastructure and tooling.
• Collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate and improve their usage of data.
• Working with the team lead to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects.
• Collaborating with a diverse group of engineers to impact the team's productivity and successful delivery.
• Defining the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals.
• Participating in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team.
• Shaping the company's engineering culture.

We seek brilliant thinkers who are passionate about taming complexity and solving problems through innovation and rigorous engineering. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and experimentation, and values efficiency and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Guide complex initiatives from initial requirements gathering and robust system design to deployment, effectively evaluating dependent technologies and collaborating closely with stakeholders.
• Build scalable data infrastructure and shape the developer experience, tackling projects such as owning data cataloging, versioning, and lineage to support seamless research and production workflows.
• Provide technical guidance to both engineering and research staff, fostering a supportive environment that accelerates the growth of your teammates.

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
• Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software.
• Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++.
• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment.
• Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis).
• Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cluster management and containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
• Cloud storage, querying, and processing technologies (e.g. Iceberg, BigQuery, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Trino/Athena).
• Experience building data platforms with a developer experience lens — designing APIs, access patterns, or tooling that abstracts infrastructure complexity from end users.
• Job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm).

Benefits

• “Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program: Earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.