Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform)

• We are looking for a powerhouse Staff Software Engineer with battle-tested experience building ETL pipelines at massive scale

• You will take ownership of our toughest backend and data plumbing challenges, bridging our transactional systems (Datomic) with our analytical and streaming infrastructure (BigQuery, Kafka, Flink, DBT) to architect resilient, elegant, and high-volume data pipelines
• Architect and Build: Design, deploy, and scale robust data pipelines that reliably move and transform data between Datomic, Kafka, and BigQuery
• Tame the Chaos: Build elegant, fault-tolerant ETL systems leveraging frameworks like DBT to ingest, sanitize, and normalize messy, unstructured data from dozens of third-party APIs and legacy vendors
• Master the Stream: Evolve our event-driven architecture, optimizing streaming performance (Kafka/BEAM) to support real-time machine learning models
• Drive Technical Excellence: Act as a force multiplier for the engineering team. You’ll set standards for backend architecture in Clojure, mentor peers, and make high-stakes technical decisions that scale with our rapid growth
• Bridge the Gap: Partner closely with Data Science, Product and Business Development teams to ensure our data infrastructure proactively serves the evolving needs of the business
• Technologies We Use
• Backend: Clojure, JVM
• Data: Datomic, BigQuery, BEAM, Sigma, SQL
• Infrastructure: Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Terraform, GCP, GraphQL
• Frontend: Typescript, JavaScript, React

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage | We offer competitive healthcare,dental and vision plans for you and your family
• Flexible paid time off | Take the time that you need to rest and recharge, including our week-long winter holiday closure
• Stock options | We offer competitive stock option packages to participate in the success of building Ladder, including an extended option exercise window of 7 years after two years with Ladder
• A rewarding 401k match program | We’ll match up to 4% of your contributions as you save for your retirement goals
• Ladder Fit Program | Your health matters. That’s why Ladder provides reimbursement of up to $50 a month for wellness-related expenses
• Commuter benefits | When you work from the office, you will receive pre-tax
• Benefits for your commute and free parking
• A stocked, beautiful new office | Located in downtown Palo Alto, our office was specifically designed to accommodate all working styles. We’ve invested in technology to support our hybrid team, plus we provide office snacks and daily catered lunches so that team members can work well and have fun together
• Paid parental leave | We think it’s crucial that new parents have time to adjust to their new lives without worrying about work, so we provide all parents inclusive of birthing, adoption, or fostering ten weeks of paid baby bonding
• Work-from-home flexibility and support | We recognize that everyone’s homelife is different and support remote and hybrid work. Upon joining, we provide a one-time $500 remote office stipend for all team members and then a monthly $150 stipend to cover WFH costs such as the internet
• Fun company-wide events | Whether we work locally or remotely, we genuinely enjoy spending time together. That’s why we plan fun virtual and in-person events to let loose and laugh

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