Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer

Raft Company Website; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Raft is a U.S.-based defense tech company building a data-focused product using open source tech like Kafka, Trino, DuckDB, and Superset. You will contribute to backend and frontend to enable users to tell data stories, scale systems, and ship features end-to-end.

The role requires 4+ years of API experience, strong design skills, and work in a security-conscious environment. Onsite in Chantilly, VA with up to 25% travel; clearance and homeland security requirements apply.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building RESTful APIs from concept to implementation.
• Strong software design and architecture skills.
• Experience with cloud-native environments and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end data features for the product leveraging open source tools.
• Collaborate across backend and frontend to enable data storytelling in the platform.
• Own complex work and lifecycle from design to production.

Skills

RESTful API design

Go

Java

Python

Scala

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

Raft is a U.S.-based defense tech company building a data-focused product using open source tech like Kafka, Trino, DuckDB, and Superset. You will contribute to backend and frontend to enable users to tell data stories, scale systems, and ship features end-to-end.

The role requires 4+ years of API experience, strong design skills, and work in a security-conscious environment. Onsite in Chantilly, VA with up to 25% travel; clearance and homeland security requirements apply.