Staff Engineer - Data Processing

Profile

At Segment, we believe in giving our customers control over all of the most important data for their business - customer data.
It all comes down to one core belief:
companies should be able to send their data wherever they want, whenever they want, wi
thout any
fuss.
This has been a core philosophy to how we’ve built our products from day one, and we’re excited to take this to the next level to fully realize this promise.
The Segment
Processing
organization is looking for
senior software engineers
who
are
passionate about creating high quality, modern solutions to delivering complex engineering efforts and joining our focus to define the future of Customer Data Platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for
designing and building distributed systems
that form the foundation of a strong Customer Data Platform.
You’ll also be responsible for mentoring, sharing knowledge, and guiding the technical decisions of the team to set us up for long-term success, both as a product and as a team.
What we do in the
Processing
Org
Our mission is to empower our customers
to ensure the
right customer data reaches the right destinations
through a
transparent, debuggable pipeline they trust.
Build
best-in-class
c
ontrols
to achieve data quality, consistency, transformation and privacy
Provide our customers detailed insight into how their data flow
s
through Segment
’s
systems
Operat
e
systems like
Kafka and
Clickhouse
at
massive
scale to
process, validate, and account for every event received by Segment
A sample of what we’re currently working on:
Architecting our systems to run in multiple AWS regions throughout the world.
Designing and building a new observability platform to make data flow through Segment transparent to our customers and to enable them to debug problems on their own.
Up-leveling our data governance product
(Protocols)
for enterprise-scale workflows
Who we are looking for:
You thrive in a fast paced and iterative environment.
You are driven more by customer impact than technology.
You love designing and shipping new products as much as iterating on existing ones.
You're focused, driven, and can get challenging projects across the finish line.
You're empathetic, patient, and love to help your teammates grow.
You have experience running services in production and take software engineering practices seriously.
You write meaningful tests and understand the value of great logging, proper monitoring, and error tracking.
You can design and implement distributed systems solutions that are highly durable and
(eventually)
consistent.
Requirements:
5 years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.
Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Well-versed in concurrent programming.
Exposure to SDLC from reviewing requirements through to debugging complex systems in Production.
You show evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web application
(e.g.,
well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
Experience maintaining and operating always-on cloud services.
Solid grasp of Linux systems and networking concepts.
Bonus:
Experience operating large-scale, distributed systems on top of cloud infrastructure
Expertise in problem solving and analyzing distributed systems
at global scale
Glimpse of what we do
@ Segment Engineering:
We try to deeply understand how the most technical aspects of our infrastructure and product impact the success of Segment
We think deeply about
building the right products
Read about how
Collin
b
uilt
Ctlstore that serves 100µs reads with 100% availability
, a
nd then we
open sourced it
Ray
gave a
talk about eBPF
video
for performance analysis and how we use it.
Alex
and team
ditched microservices
in our server-side destinations to improve our architecture.
Dive in with the team to
optimize mission-critical services written in Go
and Node.
Checkout an
efficient encoder/decoder package for various data formats
built by
Achille
We encourage you to apply if this role excites you - even if you think you may not meet all of the qualifications. At Segment we live by four values: karma, drive, tribe and focus. We are always looking for outstanding individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who embody these values. To learn more about life at Segment and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, visit our
LinkedIn
page. We’re excited to meet you!
Segment is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that everyone should receive equal consideration and treatment. Recruitment, hiring, placements, transfers, and promotions will happen based on qualifications for the positions being filled regardless of sex, gender identity, race, religious creed, color, national origin ancestry, age, physical disability, pregnancy, mental disability, or medical condition.
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In accordance with applicable law, the following represents Twilio's reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this role if hired in Colorado.
Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Colorado only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado as well.
Salary:
Denver/Boulder Metro:
Tier 4 base salary range: $132,928 - 182,776
Rest of Colorado:
Tier 5 base salary range: $116,312 - 159,929
Sales Commission:
Additionally, this role is eligible to earn commissions and eligible to participate in Twilio's equity plan.
Non Sales:
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Twilio's equity plan.
An overview of Twilio’s benefits offered is listed below:
Twilio is committed to delivering a comprehensive benefits program that provides support needed for you and your loved ones. It’s likely that you don’t think about benefits every day; however, they are an important component of your total compensation, and we want you to understand the options available to you so that you can make the most of your benefit dollars. At the time of this posting, this role is eligible to participate in the following benefits, which Twilio reserves the right to modify at any time for any reason in accordance with applicable law:
Healthcare Insurance and Leave
Prescription Drug
Dental
Vision
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Leave programs for all of life’s moments: maternity, parental/bonding, as well medical leave to care for yourself or a loved one
Financial Benefits
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a match
Reimbursement Programs & Stipends
$65 per month work-from-home stipend
Up to $50 per month for wellness expenses and activities
Up to $30 per month to use towards books/eBooks

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