Staff Software Engineer – Data Platform

Terminal (YC S23)

Engineer building scalable data platforms for commercial trucking API company. Designing and optimizing the data platform to tackle complex backend challenges.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$200,000 - CA$250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsIoTJavaKafkaPythonSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own projects aimed at enhancing data storage, replication, enrichment, and reporting capabilities.
Build and optimize efficient streaming and batch data pipelines that support our core product and API.
Design scalable storage solutions for handling petabytes of IoT and time-series data.
Develop and maintain real-time data systems to ingest growing data volumes.
Implement distributed tracing, data lineage and observability patterns to improve monitoring and troubleshooting.
Manage infrastructure that powers the current and future services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and zero downtime for HA services.
Write clean, maintainable code in Java and Python for various platform components.
Shape architectural decisions to ensure scalability and reliability throughout the data platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of experience in platform engineering or data engineering.
4+ years of experience designing and optimizing data pipelines at TB to PB scale.
Proficient in Java, with a focus on clean, maintainable code.
Strong system design skills with a focus on big data and real-time workflows.
Experience with lake-house architectures (e.g., Iceberg, Delta, Paimon).
Experience with real-time data processing tools like Kafka, Flink and Spark.
Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale data challenges.
Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Strong compensation and equity packages
Brand new MacBook and computer equipment
Top-tier health/dental benefits and a flexible healthcare spending account
Personal spending account for professional development, fitness and wellness
Four weeks paid time off + statutory holidays
In-person culture with an office located in downtown Toronto

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythondata pipelinesreal-time data systemsdistributed tracingdata lineageobservability patternssystem designlake-house architecturesbig data

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcollaborative mindset