Staff Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform

Raft; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, dental, and vision

401(k) with company match

PTO + 11 paid holidays

And More!

Job summary

Raft is hiring a Staff Engineer to design and lead real-time data platforms for government and defense clients. You will shape architectures, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence across streaming pipelines and data systems.

Responsibilities include building scalable ETL processes, operating fault-tolerant data products, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a cloud-native, security-driven environment. Remote with some on-site work and travel.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of relevant hands-on industry experience.
• In-depth experience building fault-tolerant, data-intensive platforms with streaming tech like Kafka, Pinot, or Flink.
• Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) for low-latency needs.
• Working experience in data management including ETL processing, governance, and data storage.
• Experience building and releasing software in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with Maven, Gradle, and NPM for dependency management.
• Obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment.

Responsibilities

• Build data infrastructure and platforms using streaming frameworks like Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams.
• Build ETL pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations.
• Architect, develop, and implement large-scale streaming applications using strong software design principles.

Skills

Five+ years of experience

Kafka, Pinot, Flink

Kubernetes

Cloud-native environments

Maven/Gradle/NPM

Security+ within 90 days

Data governance & ETL

DevOps & data platforms

Prometheus & Grafana

Istio / service mesh

Tools

Kafka Streams

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Fluentbit

Kibana

Loki

Helm Charts

Job description

Raft is hiring a Staff Engineer to design and lead real-time data platforms for government and defense clients. You will shape architectures, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence across streaming pipelines and data systems.

Responsibilities include building scalable ETL processes, operating fault-tolerant data products, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a cloud-native, security-driven environment. Remote with some on-site work and travel.