Senior Data Ingestion & Streaming Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Lifestyle wallet

Life & disability insurance

Fertility benefits

Mental health benefits

Paid time off

Catered meals

On-site office amenities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Lake Ingestion team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and scale high-throughput ingestion systems, working with Kafka and Flink to land curated datasets in S3 and enforce data governance across the lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, drive schema evolution, and partner with analytics teams to enable secure access. This role requires in-person collaboration at least 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience building backend platforms or distributed data systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python with clean, high-performance code.
• Deep expertise with relational databases (Postgres) and CDC mechanisms.
• Experience building/operating large-scale streaming systems with Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
• Familiarity with AWS S3, Kubernetes, and schema governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale CDC, snapshot, and streaming ingestion systems that transfer operational data into the data lake.
• Improve pipeline reliability, scale, data quality, and monitoring to maintain ingestion health and reduce replication lag.
• Develop self-service onboarding flows and tooling to help partner teams register databases and schemas quickly and securely.
• Collaborate with platform teams and data consumers to select and implement ingestion patterns for latency and compliance needs.
• Implement access controls, PII-handling workflows, and retention pipelines to protect sensitive data across its lifecycle.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java/Scala/Python

CDC/Change Data Capture

Kafka/Flink/Spark

AWS S3

Kubernetes

Data governance

Tools

Java/Scala/Python

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Lake Ingestion team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and scale high-throughput ingestion systems, working with Kafka and Flink to land curated datasets in S3 and enforce data governance across the lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, drive schema evolution, and partner with analytics teams to enable secure access. This role requires in-person collaboration at least 3 days a week.