[Hiring] Software Engineer, Data Engineering @Verse

Role Description

You will be a member of the technical staff designing, building, and maintaining the next generation of data platform tools, pipelines, and orchestration frameworks to support multiple teams and products across a diverse range of data at Verse. This role supports Core Engineering needs within the organization and builds on top of existing engineering foundations focused on data. As a technical leader with advanced data engineering expertise, teammates will look to you to vet proposals, solutions to internal and customer-facing problems, system designs, and drive the implementation of these solutions with highest standards of software-engineering best practices. You will be an integral part of scaling our data platform as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure data quality, contracts and integrity with best practices around access, governance, and federation throughout the data lifecycle
• Implement, maintain, and promote best practices and hygiene in our dataland code repository for others to follow and emulate
• Write shared libraries and reusable data tools across a variety of data flows, sources, and sinks
• Partner closely with our Data Science and data-heavy internal teams to support various analytical and AI/ML workflows
• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates
• Participate in code reviews, maintain technical documentation, and adhere to best software development practices

Qualifications

• Advanced software development skills in Python, Rust, Java, Scala, or similar data-oriented language ecosystems
• Deep understanding of databases, data {lake,ware}house architectures, and data pipeline solutions across heterogeneous data and workloads in cloud-native environments
• Proficiency in carefully handling large, complex data and processing them (streaming and batch) in both transactional and analytical settings
• Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
• Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team
• Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• Senior level software development talent and up
• Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing data engineering teams
• Intimate knowledge of scaling “big data” solutions in cloud-based environments
• Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining software such as Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, DBT, Dagster, Temporal, Presto/Trino, Iceberg, AlloyDB, Postgres, HBase, BigQuery, BigTable, Fabric, Hive, RedShift, S3, GCS, etc.
• Experience building event-driven architectures with streaming tools such as Kafka, NATS, GCP Pub/Sub, Kinesis, Bufstream, Flink, Beam
• Knowledge of managed or hosted data solutions such as Databricks, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Tinybird, etc.
• Practical knowledge working with data in formats like Parquet, Avro, Protobuf, time series, text, image, video
• Working closely to support AI/ML-focused teams (knowledge of MLflow and Ray is a big plus)
• Comfort building internal dashboards and data-focused visualizations

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity grant at a high-growth start-up
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k
• Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
• Diverse and inclusive working environment