Senior Software Engineer, Foundations

Responsibilities

• Own well-scoped projects that improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of Peregrine’s data platform.
• Build and enhance systems that ingest, process, and enrich high-volume customer data at low latency.
• Work on datastores, orchestrated data pipelines, connection layers, authorization, and notification systems.
• Contribute to datastore storage-format migrations, framework upgrades, database connection-pooling improvements, and authorization capabilities.
• Reduce data-processing latency and scale and tune search infrastructure as data volumes grow.
• Take projects from design through production rollout and write robust, well-tested, production-grade software.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause production issues, and help resolve recurring failure patterns.
• Collaborate with engineers, deployment teams, and users through pairing, code review, and iterative problem-solving.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive services such as data pipelines, relational and search datastores, or message queues.
• Experience taking projects from design through production rollout.
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software professionally and/or through open-source work.
• Ability to write robust, well-tested, and well-designed code that is frequently deployed to users.
• Comfort navigating and contributing to large, established codebases.
• Comfort participating in incident response and resolving recurring failure patterns.
• Located in the San Francisco or New York area and open to working in an office.
• Strong ownership, collaboration, communication, and willingness to work through ambiguity.

Benefits

• Benefits are offered, with additional equity and bonus eligibility if applicable.
• The role is intended for candidates in the San Francisco or New York area and requires openness to working in an office.