Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers (Data Platform)

What You’ll Do

• Design and scale high-impact systems: Build, test, deploy and refactor code that solves complex problems at the core of our ecommerce platform.
• Accelerate innovation with data products: Drive the development of cutting‑edge, AI‑enhanced data and engineering solutions.
• Own outcomes end‑to‑end: Manage priorities, deliver high‑quality work independently, and maintain system health, including CI/CD and on‑call responsibilities.
• Collaborate to amplify impact: Partner across teams to solve business‑critical challenges, ensuring your work aligns with broader goals.
• Elevate engineering excellence: Mentor others, uphold best practices, and prioritize user experience, performance, and maintainability in everything you build.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience (or 3+ with an advanced degree) designing and building distributed systems or data platforms at scale.
• Proficient in writing performant, maintainable code in one or more languages such as Java, Python, Scala, or Go.
• Hands‑on experience with modern data processing technologies, including distributed query engines (e.g., Spark, Flink), stream processing (e.g., Kafka Streams, Apache Beam), and open table formats (e.g., Iceberg, Delta Lake).
• Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and query optimization, along with foundational Linux and scripting skills.
• Strong product and customer mindset—able to translate user needs into scalable, reliable technical solutions.
• Excellent communicator with a collaborative, open approach to working across teams using written and verbal tools.

Bonus

• Experience building data products on medallion architectures or with stateful stream processing.
• Familiarity with AdTech or large‑scale analytics environments.

If you meet some but not all of these requirements, we still encourage you to apply!

Benefits

• Target total compensation $260,000 – $400,000, with fixed annual salary $185,000 – $260,000 and employee equity grant.
• Equity grants issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval and individual eligibility.
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the company.
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us!
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
• Work with the greatest talent in town.
• See the world! Offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London.

Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.