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Vectra

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$121K - $160K/yr

Experience with an object oriented programming language (Python preferred) * Strong fundamentals ... Experience with Rust * Experience as technical lead for a production-grade data pipeline

Certinia

Lead Platform Engineer-US

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$101K - $133K/yr

Deep experience in a meaningful programming language, we write Go, but are happy with experience in Java, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, C# or another systems-or-services language. * An extensive track record ...

Modern Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX

$175K - $225K/yr

Experience with a compiled programming language - preferably either C, C++, or Rust Nice to Have * Experience with machine learning * Experience with ffmpeg or video transcoding * Experience with ...

Modern Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$175K - $225K/yr

Experience with a compiled programming language - preferably either C, C++, or Rust Nice to Have * Experience with machine learning * Experience with ffmpeg or video transcoding * Experience with ...

Modern Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$121K - $160K/yr

Experience with a compiled programming language - preferably either C, C++, or Rust Nice to Have * Experience with machine learning * Experience with ffmpeg or video transcoding * Experience with ...

Certinia

Sr Platform Engineer-US

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$106K - $133K/yr

Strong development background in a meaningful programming language, we write Go, but are happy with experience in Java, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, C# or another systems-or-services language. * Solid ...

Amazon

Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Amazon Leo

Austin, TX · On-site

$122K - $161K/yr

... Rust or other languages operating against 3GPP 5G/ O-RAN defined protocols and interfaces • Have ... programming language experience - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns ...

Certinia

Platform Engineer-US

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$88K - $110K/yr

A development background in a meaningful programming language, we write Go, but are happy with experience in Java, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, C# or another systems-or-services language. * Working knowledge ...

Huckberry

AI Process Engineer

Austin, TX · Remote

... programming language. We don't care which one, though Python, TypeScript, Ruby, or Rust are all great fits for this work * Hands-on use of modern AI/LLM tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar ...

Electronic Arts Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$121K - $160K/yr

... programming language and the ability to work across others * 7+ Years Experience working across a broad, polyglot technology stack, for example: * Backend and services: Node.js, .NET, Rust, PHP

Nvidia

Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI

Austin, TX · On-site

$121K - $160K/yr

... Rust, Python, Go, or Node.js, with working familiarity in at least one more ... Solid understanding of asynchronous programming, callbacks, request lifecycles, and event-driven ...

Amazon

Embedded Software Engineer, Amazon Leo

Austin, TX · On-site

$130K - $171K/yr

... Rust or other languages operating against 3GPP 5G/ O-RAN defined protocols and interfaces • Have ... programming language PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of full software development life cycle ...

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Vectra

Austin, TX • On-site

$121K - $160K/yr

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Position Overview

At Vectra, our mission is to make the internet a safer and fairer place for everyone. Our AI Platform helps organizations find the things that matter and protect themselves and their clients - people like you and me - from cybersecurity attacks. We deal with some of the largest and most challenging environments across a broad set of industries - healthcare, finance, media, entertainment, retail, etc.

We're looking for a talented and hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to help drive the technical vision and delivery of features in our Application Data Platform. Our Application Data Platform is designed to offer both our internal developers as well as our customers a world class developer experience empowering engineering teams and customers alike to build the features that matter most. The platform must support both analytical and operational use cases and presents interesting challenges across a variety of areas - data modeling, performance, scalability, etc.

You will work closely with Application Data Platform leadership to build and deliver our technical roadmap. On any given day you could be writing a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a particular problem we're working on, working to deliver some of the most challenging and high-leverage parts of the platform, fixing bugs or optimizing code to deliver higher performance or better overall utilization, or mentoring other engineers within the organization.

Responsibilities

To be able to work on high-impact software projects for Data Platform, you will need to:

  • Be comfortable designing production-grade pipelines and systems
  • Be comfortable writing and deploying production-grade code on a daily basis
  • Contribute to automated tests and other parts of end-to-end software delivery
  • Work collaboratively with other teams and within the team with other engineers and product managers
  • Mentor and lead by example more junior engineers, breaking up tasks for them while leading end-to-end projects
  • Evaluate and identify the correct approaches or technologies to use to solve problems
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, handling production deployments and monitoring production systems

Qualifications

  • Required
    • Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or similar or equivalent work experience
    • 2+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer owning data production platforms
    • Strong applied software development experience; you've built, shipped, monitored, broken, and fixed software applications
    • Experience with real time or near real time data processing, databases and data management
    • Experience with an object oriented programming language (Python preferred)
    • Strong fundamentals with data structures and algorithms
    • Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
    • Experience with a source control system (git preferred)
    • Experience with containerization or virtualization systems (Docker preferred)
    • Experience with Kubernetes
    • Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS preferred)
    • Debugging experience
  • Desirable
    • Knowledge of networking, operating systems, security fundamentals
    • Experience with a commonly-used observability tool such as Grafana or Prometheus
    • Experience with Rust
    • Experience as technical lead for a production-grade data pipeline
    • Experience as a mentor to junior engineers

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