Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform & Pipelines

Checkr; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity compensation

Life/Disability insurance

Flexible PTO

Learning and development allowance

Fertility/parental planning support

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the People Data Platform team. You will design, build, and ship core services and data pipelines for a centralized data platform that powers fair, safe hiring decisions.

You’ll work with engineering, product, and data teams across Workforce, Tenant, Trust, and Personal, delivering high-impact features and operating at scale. Expect on-call duties and a culture of code quality and mentorship.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably with data
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Experience with ETL/ELT and data processing at scale
• Cloud data workloads with AWS (S3, EMR, Glue, Athena, EKS, Lambda)
• Comfort with AI tools day-to-day and building lightweight AI tools
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Strong problem-solving and detail orientation

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship core services and data pipelines for Checkr's centralized data platform
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to resolve ambiguities and ship features
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate problems into shipped solutions
• Maintain an experimentation mindset to validate needs and MVPs
• Deliver high-quality, secure code with testing as a default
• Participate in on-call, monitor, triage, and resolve production issues
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar through design and code reviews

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

AWS

AI tools

NoSQL

Problem solving

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Checkr is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the People Data Platform team. You will design, build, and ship core services and data pipelines for a centralized data platform that powers fair, safe hiring decisions.

You’ll work with engineering, product, and data teams across Workforce, Tenant, Trust, and Personal, delivering high-impact features and operating at scale. Expect on-call duties and a culture of code quality and mentorship.