Senior Middleware Engineer — Scalable Compute API

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible time off

Generous stipends (wellness, commuting

Parental leave benefits

Mental health support

ESPP

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Middleware, to design and build core parts of the query/compute engine powering analytics across our product suite.

You will collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams, owning projects end-to-end from design through rollout while evolving the data model for faster, more scalable analysis.

Qualifications

• Strong backend or distributed-systems engineering experience, ideally touching OLAP databases, query engines, or data infrastructure.
• Experience with SQL, query planning/execution, or building APIs that many other engineering teams depend on.
• Comfort reasoning about tradeoffs between flexibility, performance, and ease of use and making deliberate calls between them.
• A track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team projects end-to-end rather than just executing well-scoped tickets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core parts of the query/compute engine that powers analysis across the company's product suite.
• Evolve the compute API and semantic layer that other engineering teams build features on top of, so that it can support a more generic table.
• Help unify and evolve our core data model, including how non-event data is represented alongside event data.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of query planning and execution on the compute engine.
• Partner with teams across Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend to understand their needs and shape the compute layer around them.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design through rollout.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

SQL

API design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

OLAP databases

Query engines

ORMs

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Middleware, to design and build core parts of the query/compute engine powering analytics across our product suite.

You will collaborate with data management, marketing analytics, Session Replay, Experiment, CDP, Query, and frontend teams, owning projects end-to-end from design through rollout while evolving the data model for faster, more scalable analysis.