Senior Streaming Engineer — Real-Time Platform + Equity

Attentive; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness benefits

Equity

Job summary

Attentive is searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Streaming team, responsible for designing and evolving the event streaming architecture for their messaging platform. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience with high-throughput systems and proficiency in Java and distributed frameworks like Kafka.

The role involves substantial collaboration across teams to implement new capabilities, ensuring robust event delivery and system integration. Attentive offers a competitive salary range of $150,000-$210,000 annually, along with equity and other benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience architecting and supporting high-throughput, distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed streaming frameworks.
• Proficient in Java (Spring Boot) and modern development practices.
• Able to debug issues across the stack and communicate clearly.
• Experience with observability and developer tooling for streaming.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve next-generation event streaming platform.
• Enhance self-service for product engineering and data teams.
• Simplify and modernize streaming architecture.
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges.
• Champion best practices and technology selection.

Skills

Event streaming systems

Java (Spring Boot)

Kafka

Distributed systems

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

Tools

AWS

Postgres

React

Python

Job description

Attentive is searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Streaming team, responsible for designing and evolving the event streaming architecture for their messaging platform. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience with high-throughput systems and proficiency in Java and distributed frameworks like Kafka.

The role involves substantial collaboration across teams to implement new capabilities, ensuring robust event delivery and system integration. Attentive offers a competitive salary range of $150,000-$210,000 annually, along with equity and other benefits.