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Persona

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Persona

Senior Engineer building data infrastructure for Persona's identity platform. Design and operate systems for massive scale data movement and storage.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPythonSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and scale our datalake
  • Develop high-throughput data-movement and ingestion services
  • Own streaming and batch ingestion
  • Build new query and analytics capabilities directly on the datalake
  • Operate the low-latency serving layer for real-time access to platform data
  • Partner with infrastructure and product teams to provision, secure, and scale the platform

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Hands-on experience with big-data or streaming technologies such as Spark, Kafka, or Flink
  • Experience building and operating scalable data pipelines
  • A track record of leading complex, multi-quarter infrastructure projects
  • Experience mentoring engineers
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, storage, and performance/cost optimization
  • Nice to have: ClickHouse, DuckDB, Google Cloud (GCP), Kubernetes, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • medical, dental, and vision
  • 3% 401(k) contribution
  • unlimited PTO
  • quarterly mental health days
  • family planning benefits
  • professional development stipend
  • wellness benefits
  • private medical insurance
  • 6% employer pension contribution
  • monthly wellness stipend
  • co-working stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSparkKafkaFlinkData Pipeline DevelopmentDistributed SystemsPerformance OptimizationStorage SolutionsClickHouseDuckDB
Soft Skills
Mentoring Engineers