Real-Time Streaming Data Platform Engineer II

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies in Palo Alto, CA are seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Data Platform Streaming team. You will build and operate real-time streaming infrastructure powering vehicle telemetry, analytics, and AI-powered experiences.

The role requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency with Kafka or Flink, plus cloud-native tooling and modern software engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Distributed systems experience building real-time streaming platforms.
• Proficiency with Kafka or Redpanda, including topics and partitions, consumer groups, and delivery semantics.
• Experience with Flink for stateful stream processing and event time handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable streaming services with low latency.
• Collaborate across platform, data engineering, AI/ML, and product teams.
• Operate production streaming systems and diagnose incidents.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Real-time streaming

Cloud-native

Docker

Kubernetes

REST/gRPC

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Redpanda

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Schema Registry

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies in Palo Alto, CA are seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Data Platform Streaming team. You will build and operate real-time streaming infrastructure powering vehicle telemetry, analytics, and AI-powered experiences.

The role requires strong fundamentals in distributed systems and proficiency with Kafka or Flink, plus cloud-native tooling and modern software engineering practices.