Senior Software Engineer – Backend/Platform
| Company | Census |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $180000 – $230000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.
- Expertise in at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc.
- Solid understanding of relational databases (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)
- Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)
- Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience being on-call
Responsibilities
- Make valuable contributions to the deepest recesses of our tech stack – including writing typesafe Ruby and Rails with Sorbet, building performant Kotlin microservices, managing highly available Spark clusters, working on deterministic Temporal workflows, and Terraforming all the things in AWS.
- Think in Parquet, live in cloud storage, and have data flowing through your veins.
- Operate in hostile territory on all sides–building and managing a data diffing ETL engine that operates across every type of data warehouse and SQL dialect imaginable on data you don’t own or control, and send it to countless permutations of destinations that could respond any number of unpredictable ways.
- Be a reliable and steadfast operator, participating in the team on-call rotation to help diagnose, triage and fix performance bottlenecks and gnarly edge-cases our customers discover. You’ll leave the campsite cleaner than you found it.
- Work closely with our product team to help design and develop new features to improve data pipeline observability and debuggability, putting you on a first name basis with the data teams of many companies you have come to love and respect.
- Inform much of our early culture and be part of creating a truly special team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Autonomous and Self-Motivated – thrives in a high-trust environment, driving projects forward and making independent decisions with confidence
- Adaptable and Resilient – comfortably navigates ambiguity and views challenges as opportunities for growth
- Driven and Persistent – maintains a strong focus on goals, confidently overcoming obstacles and eagerly seeking innovative solutions to exceed expectations
- Able to work in-person in the Census SF or NY office 2-3 days a week