Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend data pipelines for large-scale content catalog and metadata processing.
• Develop and optimize high-throughput workflows for ingesting, transforming, and aggregating large-scale datasets.
• Design and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs for internal platforms and downstream consumers.
• Build data integration solutions connecting heterogeneous data sources and destinations while ensuring consistency and availability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers to integrate models and algorithms into production, including feature engineering and model-serving pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for data pipelines to support reliability, performance, and high availability.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval through data modeling, indexing, and query performance tuning.
• Contribute to backend and data infrastructure architecture and apply data quality validation, error handling, and recovery practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Five years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
• Three years of experience with software development in Python, Java, or Scala; cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure; and large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Two years of experience designing and building data pipelines with distributed data processing frameworks including Apache Spark.
• Two years of experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Two years of experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Two years of experience with data modeling and query performance optimization for large-scale datasets.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• Retirement benefits including a 401(k) plan and company match.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage and basic life insurance.
• Well-being benefits, certain tuition-expense reimbursement, parental leave, and sick time of one hour per 30 hours worked.
• Vacation time for full-time employees of up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafter, plus approximately 13 paid holidays per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount; employees may also be eligible for stock-based compensation.
• Telecommuting is permitted within normal commuting distance of the Bellevue, Washington office.