Senior Staff Engineer — Analytics Platform & DSL Lead

Optimizely; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimizely Analytics, located in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to shape the core platform, including the query compilation engine and NetScript DSL. You will scale these systems to support a growing customer base, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards across teams.

You will collaborate with Product and UX to deliver impactful features while ensuring architectural soundness and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software development with strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• 7+ years backend experience building, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in system design, API design, scalability, and performance tuning with strong SQL.
• Proficiency in Java and hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and CI/CD.
• Experience with query engines, compilers, interpreters, or DSL design.
• Experience building enterprise-grade analytics infrastructure or data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve architecture of query compilation engine and NetScript DSL, ensuring scale and security.
• Set standards for code quality, performance, observability, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering to deliver features with architectural soundness.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to grow the team’s technical capabilities.
• Address complex system challenges like query optimization, SQL compilation, fault tolerance, and analytics workloads.
• Influence product direction and architecture across multiple teams.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

SQL proficiency

Java

CI/CD

Cloud-native architectures

Containerization

DSL design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Databricks

Job description

Optimizely Analytics, located in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to shape the core platform, including the query compilation engine and NetScript DSL. You will scale these systems to support a growing customer base, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards across teams.

You will collaborate with Product and UX to deliver impactful features while ensuring architectural soundness and performance.