Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Summary

Join Temporal Technologies as a Data Engineer and play a key role in building and scaling our data platform. You will design and architect the platform, build data pipelines, and model data for OLAP purposes. This position requires extensive experience across the data stack, proficiency in Python and SQL, and strong collaboration skills. You will work with various stakeholders to ensure data solutions meet business needs and contribute to the data platform roadmap. Temporal offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• At minimum 7 years of industry (post-graduate) experience across the data stack (ingest, storage, compute, data modeling, visualization)
• 0-1 experience designing and architecting a data platform for a SaaS business
• Experience owning key components of SLA-bearing production data platform relying on distributed storage and compute components
• Experience building out data lake architectures
• Deep expertise within at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience working with a wide range of data sources (APIs, logs, event stores, etc.)
• Extreme proficiency in Python and SQL, additional languages a plus
• Experience with multiple data processing and query engines (Spark, Presto/Trino, Athena, BigQuery, etc.)
• Significant experience with both object stores and relational databases such as S3 and Redshift
• Ability to quickly gain proficiency in new tools and technologies
• Strong desire to continue to learn and experiment
• Strong communicator and collaborator with the ability to connect technical projects to business impact

Responsibilities

• Design and architect the data platform to provide near-term value while scaling to growing data needs
• Build data pipelines to support ingestion of event-driven and batch-driven workloads from internal tooling and third-party software and APIs
• Harden existing pipelines with data quality checks
• Model data for OLAP purposes
• Evaluate and recommend tooling such as data processing engines, table formats, and reverse ETL
• Take end-to-end project ownership by facilitating working sessions with engineers and business stakeholders to design and produce data solutions
• Create guidelines and standards for how teams external to the Data Engineering team can add data to and access data from the data platform
• Analyze costs associated with the data platform to provide projections and recommendations
• Monitor performance of scheduled and streaming operations to ensure optimal performance of data ingest, processing, and querying
• Contribute to the data platform roadmap by evaluating opportunities and recommending projects tied to delivering business needs
• Create actionable dashboards and analyses that drive behavior in our business
• Train and enable stakeholders on new data products as they are released to ensure optimal utilization and outcomes
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Perks for learning & career development
• Lifestyle spending account
• In-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware)
• Professional memberships
• Work-from-home meals
• Access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
• Equity plan