Galileo šŸ”­

Software Engineer, Platform & Data Infrastructure

Galileo šŸ”­

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bangalore • India

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About the role

  • Build and scale core infrastructure – design and optimize distributed systems and APIs that handle millions of real-time queries with low latency and high reliability.
  • Develop data-intensive systems – work across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and object stores, ensuring data pipelines and lookups are optimized for throughput and efficiency.
  • Optimize performance at scale – profile and tune systems for latency, throughput, and cost, ensuring the platform can grow with customer demand.
  • Work on real-time serving systems – design high-throughput caching layers and data lookup services to enable fast, reliable access to large-scale datasets.
  • Build and extend pub-sub and orchestration frameworks – leverage and improve systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Celery to coordinate workloads and streaming data pipelines.
  • Design internal developer tooling – create load testing, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools that help us and our customers understand and trust the system.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally – partner with product, research, and application engineering teams to ensure the platform can support new capabilities, models, and workloads.

Requirements

  • 6 years of experience
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems
  • Experience with NoSQL databases and time-series databases
  • Worked on real-time high throughput caching systems
  • Excellent python programming skills
  • Worked with raw-data lookup indexes such as Lucene and/or similar frameworks
  • Experience with runtime orchestration and pub-sub frameworks like RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka
  • Built low-latency data lookup APIs
  • Done extensive performance optimizations
  • Built internal tooling foundations for performance testing, load testing and benchmarking
Benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental Leave (birthing & non-birthing) – 100% pay for 8 weeks
  • Pre-IPO Stock Options
  • Mental & Physical Wellness Stipend
  • Catered Meals on in-office days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLNoSQLtime-series databasesreal-time systemscaching systemsperformance optimizationdata lookup APIsload testingbenchmarking
Soft Skills
collaborationcross-functional teamwork