Staff Software Engineer - Scale Core Data Systems (Equity)

Oliver Bernard

Greater London

On-site

GBP 96,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Oliver Bernard is partnering with a well-funded AI startup in London to hire a Staff Software Engineer. You will own the core data infrastructure handling millions of events per second, and steer the technical direction across databases, observability, caching, streaming, and performance-critical systems.

Ideal candidates will have strong Python/Go experience and a track record addressing complex performance and scalability challenges in high-growth tech environments. Equity is included.

Qualifications

  • Proficiency with Python, Go, or similar.
  • Experience solving complex performance and scalability challenges.
  • Background in high-growth tech companies or scale-ups preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Own core data infrastructure powering millions of events per second.
  • Drive technical direction across databases, observability, caching, streaming, and perf-critical systems.
  • Help the platform scale 10x and beyond.

Skills

Python
Go
Performance optimization

Job description

Oliver Bernard is partnering with a well-funded AI startup in London to hire a Staff Software Engineer. You will own the core data infrastructure handling millions of events per second, and steer the technical direction across databases, observability, caching, streaming, and performance-critical systems.

Ideal candidates will have strong Python/Go experience and a track record addressing complex performance and scalability challenges in high-growth tech environments. Equity is included.

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