Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Raft, a customer-obsessed company focused on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, as a Senior Software Engineer. This U.S.-based position requires U.S. citizenship and involves building a real-time data platform for the Department of Defense. You will be responsible for building data infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and large-scale streaming applications using technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Pinot. The role demands significant experience in data management, cloud-native environments, and software design. You will mentor other engineers and contribute to critical decision-making processes. Raft offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and remote work opportunities.

Requirements

• Five plus years of relevant hands-on industry experience
• In-depth experience with building and managing fault-tolerant, data-intensive platforms using popular streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pinot, or Flink
• Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements
• Working experience in data management including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage
• Experience with building and releasing software in cloud-native environments
• Experience using a variety of package managers/dependency managers including Maven, Gradle, and NPM
• Deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns
• Obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Build data infrastructure and platforms using streaming frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams
• Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations
• Leverage software engineering principles to architect, develop, and implement large scale streaming applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring (i.e. Prometheus, Grafana) and logging (i.e. Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki) solutions in cloud-native environments
• Solid understanding of Helm Charts
• Experience or knowledge of service mesh technologies, such as Istio
• Experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
• Experience in automation languages like Python or GoLang

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
• Team off-site in fun places!
• Generous Referral Bonuses