Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

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Company description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now.  For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters.  Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Job description

Who We Are: 

Twitter serves the public conversation by encouraging people all over the world to connect, learn, debate and solve problems together. We believe conversation can change the world, and that’s why Tweeps (that’s what we call Twitter employees) come to work everyday.

Twitter’s globally distributed, real-time communications network generates trillions of events and petabytes of data per day. As engineers on the Data Platform team, our mission is to build the fastest, most reliable, and largest-scale data processing technologies in the world - able to cope with ever-increasing volumes of data in real time - and then apply them to the company’s most critical and fundamental data problems.

What You’ll Do: 

Data Platform Services team owns RPC services that simplify data discovery, data management, and job scheduling, as well as API’s to power GUI data portal that is the main entry point for discovering and managing data inside Twitter.

You will make Twitter-scale data privacy compliant, more discoverable and easy to manage for data scientists and engineers across the company. You will be expected to lead efforts spanning across teams while offering support for others. You will collaborate to discover the best solutions. You will support your colleagues by reviewing code and designs. You will diagnose and troubleshoot issues in our existing systems and envision and build their successors.

You get to define and influence the technical strategy for the team as well as the larger Data Platform. You will get to evaluate various open source/cloud technologies and build modern systems to meet ever growing use cases of Twitter teams. You will work on all levels of the backend stack (Scala, MySQL, Finagle, Big data technologies etc..).

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Experience 
  • Experience in building and operating distributed backend systems in Scala, Java or Python 
  • Strong design and architecture skills.
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
  • Experience with contributing to open source software and/or metadata systems is a plus.
  • B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

Additional information

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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