Software Engineer, Data Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed systems powering SpaceXSI's data movement and compute. You will take ownership of infrastructure components that process trillions of events daily, driving the scalability, performance, and…

• Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems
• Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure supporting real-time workloads
• Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines
• Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines enabling teams to query, process, and move data at petabyte scale
• Debug and optimize distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and performance under load

What they're looking for

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop in production
• Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala or similar systems languages
• Proven expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms
• Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills
• Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure

Tech stack

• Kafka
• Spark
• Rust
• Go
• Scala