Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Streaming Infra

Compass Real Estate - Peninsula; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 196,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Compass International Holdings (CIH) is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Streaming & Durability team to own the systems that protect millions of records and deliver reliable data access across tenants.

You will design multi-tenant isolation, ship SDKs in Go, Java, and Python, and operate infrastructure with zero downtime during upgrades. You’ll partner with product and platform teams to scale databases and Kafka/MSK, and respond to incidents with a focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in production scale on AWS.
• Built shared tooling (SDKs, libraries, platform APIs) for engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the database and caching fleet (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis/ValKey, DynamoDB).
• Build multi-tenant data isolation and shipping SDKs in Go, Java, and Python.
• Own production database upgrades at fleet scale with zero downtime.
• Build and scale Kafka/MSK streaming infrastructure and deployment strategies.
• Develop observability into the data layer with dashboards and telemetry.
• Partner with product and platform teams to assess readiness and resolve incidents.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

SDKs

Tools

PostgreSQL

ElastiCache Redis/ValKey

DynamoDB

Kafka/MSK

Terraform

Kubernetes

IAM

Job description

Compass International Holdings (CIH) is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Streaming & Durability team to own the systems that protect millions of records and deliver reliable data access across tenants.

You will design multi-tenant isolation, ship SDKs in Go, Java, and Python, and operate infrastructure with zero downtime during upgrades. You’ll partner with product and platform teams to scale databases and Kafka/MSK, and respond to incidents with a focus on reliability and performance.