Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems

About the Role

Join a startup building an agentic data lakehouse platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems, you'll work on a greenfield project to build scalable data infrastructure that transforms enterprise data into actionable insights at scale.

What You'll Do

• Work on a greenfield OLAP lakehouse project to build the data platform for the agentic era

• Design and implement distributed data system components, with a focus on join optimization and query performance

• Collaborate across infrastructure, services, and frontend teams to deliver data platform features

• Ship reliable, scalable data infrastructure that supports enterprise analytics

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of experience as a data systems, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer

• Experience with big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop)

• Strong background in distributed systems

• Comfort diving into any part of the system—infrastructure, services, or frontend

• Proficiency in Haskell and/or TypeScript

• Track record of shipping products from zero to one

• Experience with databases and database optimization

• Strong data focus and understanding of data-driven systems

• Experience with OLAP lakehouse/data lakehouse architecture and query optimization

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and their real-world applications

Location

New York, NY, United States