Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Overview

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation. Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. We use reinforcement learning algorithms to convert raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions, focusing on industrial applications that are well-sensorized with measurable KPIs. We enable domain experts to configure AI agents without writing code, defining what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.

Phaidra is based in the USA, but we are 100% remote with no physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, and India.

Who You Are

We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to anchor the technical direction of our growing Data Platform team. You’ll drive architecture decisions for distributed, multi-tenant systems and raise the bar for the engineers around you. You are bold, creative, and have deep empathy for customers. You will design and implement significant parts of the codebase, make an immediate impact with your work, and help guide the product and team as we grow.

Responsibilities

You'll own the systems every other team at Phaidra depends on for ingestion, storage, serving, and orchestration. As our customer base grows rapidly, this role is about scaling those systems and the processes around them to meet that growth, with multi-tenancy and self-serve tooling as core priorities. Concretely, that means you'll:

• Design and build scalable components for the data platform that enable high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
• Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of API services and scalable event-driven applications that power the product backend.
• Design clear, extensible software interfaces for internal consumers and maintain a high release-quality bar.
• Design and optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security, and ease of access.
• Own and operate your services in production, including releases, deployments, and on-call rotations, meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers, and TPMs across teams.
• Mentor your peers and be a technical role model on the team.

Key Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
• Proven expertise building, operating, and monitoring large-scale multi-tenant systems while accounting for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting.
• Approach your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency, directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.
• Experience with latest batch & realtime data processing, storage & service technologies such as Apache Flink.

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on experience designing environment-agnostic abstractions that let applications run across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments, with working knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with self-service data platforms, data lakes, or lakehouses at scale.

Our Stack

• Python, Go
• Ray.io
• REST & gRPC micro-services
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan
• GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, MongoDB, BigQuery etc.
• Grafana Cloud, Prometheus
• Pants
• Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis

Onboarding

In your first 30 days, you will be immersed in an onboarding program, spend time in the Engineering org, read our handbook, set up your development environment, and begin an onboarding exercise that introduces you to our code base. You will learn about our agile approach, sprint boards, and release processes, and start on a few good first tasks to get comfortable with end-to-end release flow.

By your first 60 days, you will have a solid understanding of what Phaidra does, met team members across the company, completed the onboarding exercise, and begun identifying areas for improvement in the data platform.

By your first 90 days, you will be fully integrated, have a deeper understanding of system architecture and infrastructure, complete your first on-call experience, and become an expert with our tooling.

Interview Process

All interviews are held via Google Meet with an active camera connection required. The process includes:

• Operations introductory interview (30 minutes)
• Hiring Manager interview (30 minutes)
• Data Structures & Algorithms technical interview (45 minutes)
• System Design technical interview (90 minutes)
• Culture fit interview with Phaidra's co-founders (30 minutes)

Base Salary (US Residents)

• Tier 1 (Largest highest-cost metros): $145,600 - $200,200
• Tier 2 (Other major metros): $138,320 - $190,190
• Tier 3 (Mid-sized metro areas): $131,040 - $180,180
• Tier 4 (All other locations): $123,760 - $170,170

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for equity. Final salary will be determined based on several factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, expertise, education and location. In some cases, final compensation may fall outside the posted range. Salary ranges are regularly reviewed and may be adjusted in response to market trends.

Benefits & Perks

• Fast-paced, team-oriented environment where your work directly shapes the company's direction.
• We are a 100% remote company.
• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity.
• Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
• Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (region varies).
• Unlimited paid time off, with a minimum of 20 days per year.
• Paid parental leave (region varies).
• Flexible stipends for workspace, well-being, and professional development.
• Company MacBook.

Note: Not all benefits apply to temporary employees such as interns.

Remote & Equal Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on merit and qualifications and do not discriminate by race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or other protected status. If you need assistance with the application process, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

Phaidra participates in E-Verify where applicable. To be considered for any position at Phaidra, you must submit an online application. This role will remain open until it is filled. We do not sponsor visas. WE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM RECRUITERS.