Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Data Platform

Ridgeline; San Ramon (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Educational reimbursements

Wellness reimbursements

Stock options

Job summary

Ridgeline is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Custodian Data team to help build a scalable, cloud-native data engine with global coverage. You will contribute to architecture evolution, ensure high-quality systems, and collaborate with product and engineering partners to power mission-critical workflows.

The role requires 5–7+ years in software engineering, strong Java/Kotlin skills, and hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native development, APIs, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years in a software engineering role, delivering enterprise-grade applications.
• Extensive experience in Java or Kotlin.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with API development and/or event-driven architecture.
• Understanding of high-availability and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and handling L2/L3 support.
• Proficiency with observability tooling, performance monitoring, and production debugging.
• Strong grasp of automated testing practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.

Responsibilities

• Contribute hands-on technical skills, domain knowledge, and design input to a collaborative engineering team.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle—from requirements and design reviews to building, testing, and deploying code.
• Build and maintain cloud-native applications using AWS-based services across our platform.
• Design, develop, and support APIs, events, and distributed services with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Develop Data pipelines for ingesting and enriching data.
• Implement and improve developer tooling and automation to drive high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Participate in production support, including L2/L3 support and on-call rotation, ensuring high availability for customer-facing systems.
• Drive improvements in observability, instrumentation, and performance monitoring.
• Advocate for and contribute to strong engineering fundamentals, including automated testing at all levels.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, and other engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ownership, creativity, and a willingness to dive deep into business domain problems.
• Contribute to an engineering culture rooted in learning, teaching, inclusion, and transparency.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

AWS

API development

On-call

Observability

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related

Tools

Docker

Job description

Ridgeline is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Custodian Data team to help build a scalable, cloud-native data engine with global coverage. You will contribute to architecture evolution, ensure high-quality systems, and collaborate with product and engineering partners to power mission-critical workflows.

The role requires 5–7+ years in software engineering, strong Java/Kotlin skills, and hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native development, APIs, and distributed systems.