Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a startup building an agentic data lakehouse platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems, you'll work on a greenfield project to build scalable data infrastructure that transforms enterprise data into actionable insights at scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Work on a greenfield OLAP lakehouse project to build the data platform for the agentic era - Design and implement distributed data system components, with a focus on join optimization and query performance - Collaborate across infrastructure, services, and frontend teams to deliver data platform features - Ship reliable, scalable data infrastructure that supports enterprise analytics WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 4+ years of experience as a data systems, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer - Experience with big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop) - Strong background in distributed systems - Comfort diving into any part of the system—infrastructure, services, or frontend - Proficiency in Haskell and/or TypeScript - Track record of shipping products from zero to one - Experience with databases and database optimization - Strong data focus and understanding of data-driven systems - Experience with OLAP lakehouse/data lakehouse architecture and query optimization - Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and their real-world applications LOCATION New York, NY, United States