Staff Software Engineer

Fanatics

full-time

Posted on: 9/3/2025

Location: California, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $144,000 - $234,000 per year

Lead

ApacheAWSDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaNoSQLOpen SourceScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Build data platforms and streaming engines that are real-time and batch in nature
Optimize existing data platforms and infrastructure while exploring other technologies
Provide technical leadership to the data engineering team on how data should be stored and processed more efficiently and quickly at scale
Build and scale stream & batch processing platforms using the latest open-source technologies
Work with data engineering teams and help with reference implementation for different use cases
Improve existing tools to deliver value to the users of the platform
Work with data engineers to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness

8+ years of software development experience with at least 3+ years of experience on open-source big data technologies
Knowledge of common design patterns used in Complex Event Processing
Knowledge in Streaming technologies: Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Spark, Spark Streaming
Proficiency in Java, Scala
Strong hands-on experience in SQL, Hive, Spark SQL, Data Modeling, Schema design
Experience and deep understanding of traditional, NoSQL and columnar databases
Experience of building scalable infrastructure to support stream, batch and micro-batch data processing
Experience utilizing Apache Iceberg as the backbone of a modern lakehouse architecture
Experience utilizing AWS Glue as a centralized data catalog to register and manage Iceberg tables
Experience working with Druid/StarRocks/Apache Pinot etc., powering low-latency queries, routine Kafka ingestion, and fast joins across both historical and real-time data