Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Infra — Scale Kafka
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A technology company in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance its messaging infrastructure using Kafka and Kubernetes. The role involves collaboration with a team to improve reliability and performance of systems, promoting event-driven architectures. Ideal candidates should have over 7 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in internet-scale applications. The position offers comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, and flexible vacation policies. #J-18808-Ljbffr Flawless Youth
- Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Messaging Infra team to tackle large-scale streaming and distributed messaging challenges supporting hundreds of millions of users. You will work closely with ML/AI/Search partners to build scalable solutions,...Suggested
$227.2k - $324.5k
About the Role:As a Staff Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate... ..., cost, and efficiency of our infra. Lead large scale cross functional refactorings if... ...databases (e.g. Cassandra), message brokers (e.g. Kafka), and caches (e.g. Redis)...SuggestedFull timeTemporary workLocal areaFlexible hours- Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Infrastructure We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Messaging... ...be at the heart of developing and scaling Reddit's messaging platform. You will be instrumental in engineering Kafka as a platform and promoting event‑driven...SuggestedFlexible hours
- ...information. For more information, visit The Messaging Infra team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to solve large scale streaming infrastructure and distributed... ...working closely with technologies like Kafka, and Kubernetes. Strimzi is a huge plus!...SuggestedRemote workFlexible hours
$225k - $300k
...Job Description Job Description Staff Backend Software Engineer – High-Scale Messaging (SF) Location: San Francisco, CA — On-site, 5 days/week Employment Type: Full-time Salary: $225K–$300K base Equity: Competitive equity Visa Sponsorship: Not available...SuggestedFull timeRelocation- Databricks seeks highly autonomous backend/infrastructure engineers to power enterprise-scale model inference on the Mosaic AI platform. You will build... ...and latency at scale. Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver end-to-end experiences, influence...
- ...leading AI analytics platform, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend... ...stack emphasizes Java and Python atop Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud services. You’ll... ...reliable, cost-effective data infrastructure at massive scale. #J-18808-Ljbffr Amplitude
- TAR in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to personally build critical software and help shape the technical direction of systems for design, construction, and operation of power campuses. You will own a core technical area, mentor engineers, and collaborate...
- Slash is seeking a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to own and scale the foundation of our banking platform. You will keep systems reliable, secure, and fast, building tooling and infra across AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and related technologies. The role focuses...Work at office
- CloudZero is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own Kafka operations, Kubernetes environments, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll drive reliability... ...experience, with autonomy to shape our platform as we scale. You’ll focus on optimizing Kafka and EKS, implement GitOps...
$240k - $400k
...developers fix bugs faster.As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issues team, you'll... ...at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and... ...details of interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases... ...PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferredEqual...Work experience placement- ...talented Distributed Systems Engineer to join our core... ...platforms that leverage message queues, job flow systems... ...experience as a software engineerProficiency in... ...significant organizational scale. Solid understanding of... ...systems (e.g., Temporal, Kafka)In-depth knowledge of concurrency...Work at office3 days per week
$163k - $204k
...You'll be a key full-stack engineer focused on building and... ...requirements into reliable software. If you like solving hard... ...that ships quickly and scales wellHere’s what we're looking... ...experience with message-based systems (Sidekiq, Kafka, etc.)Experience with Ruby...Full timeWork at officeLocal area2 days per week3 days per week$200k - $300k
...Role: We are seeking a hands‑on Staff Software Engineer who thrives in building from 0‑1... ..., ensuring rapid iteration while scaling reliably with enterprise demand.... ...self‑managed), Redis, and workflow/message systems (Temporal, SQS, Kafka), and ideally vector databases or...Full time- Vercel is seeking an engineer to own the agentic infrastructure that powers builds and deployments at scale. You will design, develop, and operate backend systems that ensure fast, reliable, and secure software delivery for millions of builds daily. You will collaborate...
$156.5k - $235k
...measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco... ...systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, Redpanda/Kafka) where appropriate.Use workflow engines such as Temporal and Cadence to... ...or similar); you understand how infra choices impact performance, cost, and...WorldwideShift work$192k - $260k
...companies in the world.Our engineering teams build highly... ...resilience, security and scale that is critical to... ...one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists... ...(Apache Spark, Apache Kafka), integrating with... ...and environments.Core Infra: Build the core infrastructure...Work at officeLocal areaWorldwideFlexible hours$174k - $223k
...now. We are looking for Staff Engineers with Java/SpringBoot and... ...-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc). Working... ...coding, etc). Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (... .... The base pay scale for this position in:...Hourly payWork experience placementWork at officeImmediate startVisa sponsorshipWork visaFlexible hours$217.57k - $260k
...Overview ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (SDE V - Developer Experience... ...services efficiently at scale. Please note: This role is... ...Redis for state management, Kafka for event streaming, and custom... ...Letter Queue (DLQ) bridges for message reliability. Establish AI...Full timeTemporary workWork at officeRemote workRelocation packageFlexible hours- Gusto is seeking a seasoned Staff Software Engineer to join the teams behind our customer-facing products. You will design, build, and own features... ...You will work across Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React at scale, mentoring engineers, collaborating with Product, Data,...
$180k - $220k
...CMU, Berkeley, Brex, Scale AI, and Google. We've... ...looking for a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to architect and build... ..., and reliable software. Strong backend engineer... ...workflow technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Temporal‑... ...requirements (payments, messaging, logistics,...Full timeWork at officeShift work- About Flow Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements... ...A, the team is scaling the product from thousands... ...Flow is hiring a staff software engineer with an infrastructure... ...teams. Our stack (infra-leaning) TypeScript,... ...for persistence and messaging. Containers,...Flexible hours
- Echelon is building the AI platform for Business Operations in San Francisco. We are hiring an engineer to design and operate the secure execution substrate for our agents, scaling ephemeral sandboxes, optimizing startup performance, and ensuring durable long-running...
- Formal is building a network security platform for the AI era, and this role leads the infrastructure behind high-scale deployments. You will drive migration to Kubernetes, operate reliable clusters, and advance cloud and on‑prem deployments across AWS/Google Cloud. We...Full time
- Cloudjobs is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to design and build development and production platforms that ensure reliability... ...'s products. You will maintain infrastructure abstractions and scale systems to support the next order of magnitude of growth....Relocation
$231k - $340k
...investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a... ...OverviewAs a Backend Platform Engineer at Harvey, you will... ..., caching and messaging primitives, error handling... ...confidenceWhat You Have8+ years of software engineering experience... ...technologies (Redis, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases,...Flexible hoursShift work- TAR is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build critical software for power campuses, from simulation to energy management. You will own a core... ...-level coding, debugging, and result validation to enable scalable, GW-scale energy infrastructure. #J-18808-Ljbffr Tar IncWork at office
$255k - $405k
...inference infrastructure at scale. There's a lot more on the immediate... ...growth. The Fraud Engineering team works within our Applied... ...platform. We are looking for a software engineer with anti fraud & abuse... ...Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka. While we value experience...Immediate start$186.9k - $267.7k
...observability and control.As a Staff Software Engineer on the Data & Scalability... ...Experience designing large-scale distributed systems and solving... ...or queueing systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Kinesis)... ...our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work...Full timeTemporary workWork at officeLocal areaImmediate startFlexible hours$260k - $350k
...category-defining software that enables Ryder... ...creating impact for the engine of the American... ...it here.Role: Staff Software Engineer... ...data streaming and messaging architecture as the... ...delivery of large-scale integrations with... ...such as Databricks, Kafka, Spark, etc.Solid...Full timeWork at officeImmediate start
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