Software Engineer II - Data Platform - Seattle

Qualtrics; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office amenities

Quarterly team offsites

Education budget

Job summary

Qualtrics is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Data Platform in Seattle. You’ll contribute to building a scalable, data-intensive SaaS platform, focusing on high availability, performance, and security to support experience management products.

Join a collaborative team that designs systems for scale, mentoring others, and delivering value through agile practices. This role rewards growth in distributed systems, data processing, and full-stack collaboration with UX, TechOps, and Product

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies.
• Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
• Knowledge of open source data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• 2–5 years of meaningful engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Focus on the development of SaaS software and build, distribute, scale and operate these services.
• Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data-intensive microservices.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to provide customer value.
• Partner with UX, TechOps, Product to achieve the best product designs.
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with peers, prioritize features, and contribute on-call rotations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data processing

Algorithmic thinking

Data structures

Data modeling

Mathematical/computational background

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

Software Engineer II - Data Platform - Seattle

Why We Have This Role

The Data Platform supports all of the Qualtrics experience management products. Our services ingest, store, process, and perform analytics on experience data, all at scale. We design systems for high availability, high throughput, data consistency and security. The platform we have built enables all of the customer, employee, brand and product experience teams to rapidly develop data-driven workflows and tools to help our customers manage their businesses.

How You’ll Find Success

• We aspire to be the best engineering organization within Qualtrics. Consequently, we focus on extending the platform by facilitating the specialization and personal growth of our engineers
• Our engineers, at every level, participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full stack development and delivery, operations, quality, and benchmarking and optimization
• Qualtrics wants to dominate the experience management space so we welcome individuals who are interested in envisioning the future and anticipating customer needs that don’t exist yet
• We expect our senior contributors to identify hidden problems, to exhibit a healthy intellectual and engineering curiosity, and to continuously question if there isn’t a better way. Time spent on the data platform occurs in dog years. You will grow rapidly.

How You’ll Grow

• Challenged to deal with high impact services, with high scale and reliability requirements.
• Develop a broader understanding of the interactions between systems in areas such as caching, routing, queue management, and event driven systems.
• Develop the ability to build scalable, fast, robust, and simple SaaS solutions.
• Develop familiarity with containerization and full-stack development.
• Learn to implement new functionality from provided requirements and specifications.
• Benefit from working with other engineers, tech-ops, and product managers.
• Learn Agile methodologies by attending daily stand-up meetings, prioritizing tasks, and working with a sense of urgency to meet a scheduled plan to deliver value to our customers.
• Opportunities to mentor and lead teammates.

Things You’ll Do

• Focus on the development of SaaS Software and build, distribute, scale and operate these services.
• Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data intensive micro services.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to provide customer value
• Partner with UX, TechOps, Product, to achieve the best product designs
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, serve on an on-call rotation, and consistently deliver value to customers

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

• We expect all of our contributors to have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and to be capable of demonstrating expertise in algorithmic execution, data structures and data modeling, as well as the ability to estimate and deliver on coding objectives. We are looking for exceptional individuals at all experience levels, from junior to principal engineers.
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies.
• Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
• Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• 2-5 years of meaningful engineering experience

What You Should Know About This Team

• When working on Data Platform, collaboration is essential. You will get the opportunity to work with other teams, and projects on a regular basis.
• The scale of the problems we are solving means your impact will scale as well. You will have the opportunity to make big impacts on performance, cost, and reliability.
• The need to scale means ample opportunities to learn about new and upcoming technologies to meet growing customer needs.

Our Team’s Favorite Perks And Benefits

• Fun and collaborative office environment with in office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor garden space, and of course, pinball!
• Quarterly team offsites, giving developers a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
• Education budget you can flexibly spend on topics that interest you.

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model

Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave Act, Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, mental health benefits, and an experience bonus. For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.

Washington State Base Annual Pay Transparency Range

$121,000—$147,000 USD