Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and architecture for intricate projects and systems within the Datastore.

• Evaluate implementation trade-offs and support decisions using data.

• Collaborate with product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, development teams, and support teams.

• Convert requirements into integrations, services, and scalable data-platform solutions.

• Contribute to wider product and technical decisions.

• Diagnose and profile ambiguous issues across system boundaries.

• Enhance code structure, test coverage, and tooling.

• Implement features with a strong emphasis on data integrity, design quality, and maintainability.

• Draft RFCs and lead intricate feature discovery and technical design phases.

• Organize individual and team tasks while balancing speed, generalizability, and technical debt.

• Mentor and teach engineers while providing constructive feedback.

• Serve as a technical lead or coordination point for engineering practices.

• Enhance Datastore's operational robustness and usability through documentation, tools, and dashboards.

• Manage event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, core data models, third-party integrations, or PostgreSQL operations based on focus area.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend development.

• A minimum of 3 years dedicated to data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.

• Highly skilled in data modeling, distributed systems, API design, or database engineering.

• Strong expertise in SQL and practical experience with PostgreSQL.

• Experience in writing and tuning queries, as well as understanding schema design, indexes, and query plans.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-processing technologies, such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis.

• Proficient in Julia or Python; experience with Julia is a significant advantage but not mandatory.

• Experience in deploying and managing services in containerized environments.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and/or Helm.

• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and enhancing team practices, tooling, test coverage, or documentation.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Self-directed mindset with experience thriving in hybrid or fully remote teams.

• Experience or interest in LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production.

• For Datastore Systems: GraphQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, event-driven pipeline design, replay, idempotency, and consumer lag handling.

• For PostgreSQL & Data Modeling: query planner, index selection, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), schema design, zero-downtime migrations, dual-write transitions, backfills, verification, PostgreSQL operations, replication, backup and restore, connection pooling, bloat, vacuum behavior, and extensions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Flexible asynchronous remote work practices.

• In-person office hubs located in Boston, New York City, and Paris.

• A diverse and inclusive team environment.