Staff Engineer - Real-Time Data Platform (Remote)

Raft; Tacoma (WA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) plan with company match

PTO + 11 holidays

Education & training benefits

Tech gadget budget

Job summary

Raft is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architecture and deliver a real-time data platform for DoD customers. You will own complex problem solving, guide engineers, and shape technical direction in a high‑impact environment.

You will work with technologies like Kafka, Pinot, and Kubernetes, while ensuring low-latency processing of massive event streams and secure, compliant data handling across cloud-native stacks.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on industry experience in engineering
• Experience building fault-tolerant data-intensive platforms with streaming tech (Kafka/Pinot/Flink)
• Cloud-native deployment and data management practices

Responsibilities

• Lead high‑level architecture designs and critical decisions
• Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence across teams

Skills

5+ years experience

Software architecture

Cloud-native

Security awareness

Tools

Kafka

Pinot

Flink

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Maven

Gradle

NPM

Prometheus

Grafana

Fluentbit

Kibana

Loki

Istio

Helm

Job description

Raft is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architecture and deliver a real-time data platform for DoD customers. You will own complex problem solving, guide engineers, and shape technical direction in a high‑impact environment.

You will work with technologies like Kafka, Pinot, and Kubernetes, while ensuring low-latency processing of massive event streams and secure, compliant data handling across cloud-native stacks.