Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems and Databases

Conviva is the first and best place to go to understand and optimize digital customer experiences. Our Operational Data Platform harnesses full-census, comprehensive client-side telemetry—capturing every aspect of customer experience and engagement across all devices and linking them to the performance of underlying services, in real time and at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. Trusted by industry leaders like Disney, NBC, and the NFL, Conviva revolutionizes how businesses understand customer experience and engagement, maximizing satisfaction, conversion, and revenue.

We are actively looking for a highly motivated and talented distributed  backend software engineers at all levels to join our dynamic backend development teams (Or OLAP or Data Infrastructure team?).  You will work with some of the best engineers in building various portions of a large end to end, distributed real time streaming data processing platform in handling internet scale massive amount data in real time.

What Success Will Look Like: 

• Develop and maintain the OLAP layer, optimizing data processing and query performance.  
• Design, build and optimize data pipelines for efficient batch and streaming data processing using various open-source frameworks.  
• Integrate OLAP solutions into the broader data ecosystem, ensuring high performance and reliability.  
• Design, build, maintain and improve a range of algorithms and their underlying systems. 
• Lead critical technical decisions collaboratively, guiding and training team members to tackle engineering challenges. 
• Foster a positive team culture, promoting code quality, driving initiatives, and ensuring impeccable execution.  
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in distributed database systems and stream processing frameworks. 

Who You Are & What You've Done: 

• Solid foundation in computer science or related fields.  
• Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, Scala, Java or similar language. 
• 3+ years of industry experience in software development using modern software development processes, tool chains and infrastructure or a PhD with significant contributions in big data or distributed systems.  
• Proficiency in major distributed stream processing frameworks, such as Akka Streams, Apache Spark, Apache Flink and others. 
• Hands-on experience with big data platforms with query engines or distributed database systems, such as ClickHouse, Apache Druid, Presto, BigQuery and others.  
• Experience in performance tuning, analysis over distributed systems. 
• Experience building massively scalable data infrastructure using commercial and open-source tools. 
• Highly motivated, passionate about technology, eager to learn, and proving ability to learn and master fast pacing innovative technologies. 
• Demonstrate effective collaboration within teams while being open to receiving feedback, embracing a learning mindset, and actively supporting others.  
• Adaptable to ambiguity and comfortable in a fast-paced work environment.

Preferred:

• Experience in a SaaS space
• Track record of contributing to open-source projects

The expected salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $220,000 + equity + benefits. Compensation and actual level will be determined by numerous factors such as your qualifications, experience, and relevant education or training.

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets!