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Senior Backend/Data Engineer

Date Posted: Jan 27, 2026

Job #1685609
Contract
San Francisco, California, USA
70 - 80 per hour (USD)

Responsibilities

  • Build components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
  • Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
  • Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
  • Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
  • As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
  • Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment

Skills Required

  • 4+ years of professional programming in Java, Scala, Python, etc.
  • 3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Hive, Singlestore, Kafka, and AWS big data technologies.
  • Knowledge of system, application design and architecture
  • Experience of build industry level high available and scalable service
  • Passion about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with processing large amount of data at petabyte level.
  • Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, etc.
  • Experience in widely used Sprint framework and Web framework (React.js, Vue.js, Angular, etc.) and good knowledge of Web stack HTML, CSS, Webpack

Education & Work Experience

  • STEM BA Degree + 5 years relevant experience

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