UMATR · 8 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $230K/yrUMATR is seeking a senior-to-staff level Software Engineer to help design and scale the core data infrastructure behind a rapidly growing platform handling high-volume telemetry and analytical workloads. This role focuses on evolving an existing analytics system into a scalable, cost-efficient, multi-tenant data platform capable of supporting thousands of customers.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Jude Rushford
Responsibilities
Design, build, and evolve large-scale analytical data infrastructure supporting high-ingest telemetry workloads
Incrementally migrate existing systems toward a lakehouse / open table format architecture
Implement scalable streaming ingestion pipelines and object-storage-backed analytics
Build and operate horizontally scalable compute layers for batch and analytical workloads
Tune system-level performance by diving into logs, metrics, query plans, and memory usage
Collaborate with internal teams and external customers to translate product needs into low-level infrastructure requirements
Evaluate and integrate open-source technologies, balancing build vs. buy decisions
Contribute directly through hands-on development with a strong bias toward shipping and iteration
Qualification
Required
Strong experience building or operating distributed data systems, databases, or query engines
Background supporting high-scale analytics or observability platforms
Deep interest in performance, efficiency, and system internals
Comfort working in fast-moving environments with limited headcount and evolving architecture
Ability to reason about long-term systems design while delivering short-term impact
Preferred
Experience with technologies such as ClickHouse, DuckDB, Spark, Flink, DataFusion, Databricks, or similar
Familiarity with columnar formats and lakehouse concepts (Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake)
Experience with object storage (S3, MinIO) and large-scale telemetry pipelines
Background in open-source software (usage or contribution)
Experience in Rust, C++, Java, or Python
Academic or professional focus on databases or distributed systems
Benefits
Competitive senior-level compensation
Company
UMATR
pronounced: you matter UMATR is your go-to Software & AI Recruitment Partner - and we believe that the best way to predict the future is to bring together the people who will build it.
Founded in 2021
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase