✦ Luna Orbit — Software Engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

at Scale AI

📍 San Francisco, CA; New York, NY Onsite Posted April 02, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 8+ years
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform leads architecture and delivery of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms at Scale AI.

  • Architect and drive data platform architecture for storage, streaming, caching, and indexing
  • Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional projects
  • Ensure reliability and performance of data systems
  • Collaborate with product and stakeholders to refine requirements
  • Productionize data privacy and GDPR needs

Stack spans MongoDB, Postgres, Kinesis, Flink, Spark, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Snowflake on AWS/Kubernetes; involves data warehousing, data privacy.

The ideal candidate is a senior staff data platform engineer with 8+ years building large-scale storage/streaming/warehousing systems in cloud environments; strong experience with MongoDB, Postgres, Kinesis, Flink, Spark, Snowflake; able to mentor teams and lead platform initiatives.

8+ years of full-time engineering experienceback-end systemslarge-scale data storagestreamingand warehousing
CircleCIdata privacyGDPRcost optimization of cloud data platformsdata lifecycle strategyhyper-growth startup experience
MongoDBPostgreSQLKinesisFlinkSparkElasticSearchRedisTrinoPrestoSnowflakeAmazon Web ServicesKubernetesCircleCI
8+ years of engineering experience; data storage; streaming; warehousing; MongoDB; Postgres; Kinesis; Flink; Spark; ElasticSearch; Redis; Snowflake; Trino; Presto; Amazon Web Services; Kubernetes; CircleCI
MongoDBPostgreSQLKinesisFlinkSparkElasticSearchRedisTrinoPrestoSnowflakeAmazon Web ServicesKubernetesCircleCI
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationleadershipengineering standardscross-functional collaboration
Industry SaaS
Job Function Lead data platform engineering for Scale AI, building scalable storage/streaming/warehousing systems
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kinesis, Flink, Spark, ElasticSearch, Snowflake
staff software engineerdata platformdata storagestreamingcachingindexingmongodbpostgreskinesisflinksparkElasticSearchRedisSnowflakeTrinoPrestoAmazon Web ServicesKubernetesCircleCIamazon web servicesawskubernetescirclecisnowflakeelasticsearchredis
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