Set technical direction for a shared integrations platform, leading the design of resilient, event-driven Java services while owning major projects, operational health, engineering standards, and team mentorship.
Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform - Seattle
📜 Description
- Design, build, distribute, scale, and operate SaaS services.
- Develop robust, highly available, data-intensive microservices.
- Implement features and optimize existing services to deliver customer value.
- Partner with UX, TechOps, and Product on product design.
- Contribute across architecture, development, operations, quality, benchmarking, and optimization; participate in on-call rotations.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies example Elasticsearch, SQL, Starrocks, Spark, Trino
- Experience in employing advanced tools within a distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing, ingestion and analytics.
- Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
- Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and operational skills
- 8+ years of meaningful engineering experience
✨ Benefits
- Fun and collaborative office environment with in office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor space, and of course, pinball!
- Quarterly team offsites, giving developers a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
- Education budget you can flexibly spend on topics that interest you.
- QED (Qualtrics Engineer Development) Program encourages all engineers to invest in themselves up to 10% of their time each quarter to advance their careers.
Full job description
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Why We Have This Role
How You’ll Find Success
- We aspire to be the best engineering organization within Qualtrics. Consequently, we focus on extending the platform by facilitating the specialization and personal growth of our engineers.
- Our engineers, at every level, participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full stack development and delivery, operations, quality, and benchmarking and optimization.
- Qualtrics wants to dominate the experience management space so we welcome individuals who are interested in envisioning the future and anticipating customer needs that don’t exist yet.
- We expect our senior contributors to identify hidden problems, to exhibit a healthy intellectual and engineering curiosity, and to continuously question if there isn’t a better way.
- Senior engineers would have the opportunity to drive the NorthStar and vision for the team. Time spent on the analytics platform occurs in dog years. You will grow rapidly.
How You’ll Grow
- You will be challenged to deal with high impact services, with high scale and reliability requirements.
- You will develop a broader understanding of the interactions between systems in areas such as caching, routing, queue management, and event driven systems.
Things You’ll Do
- Focus on the development of SaaS Software and design, build, distribute, scale and operate these services.
- Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data intensive micro services.
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to provide customer value
- Partner with UX, TechOps, Product, to achieve the best product designs
- Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, serve on an on-call rotation, and consistently deliver value to customers
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- We expect all of our contributors to have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and to be capable of demonstrating expertise in algorithmic execution, data structures and data modeling, as well as the ability to estimate and deliver on coding objectives.
- Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies example Elasticsearch, SQL, Starrocks, Spark, Trino
- Experience in employing advanced tools within a distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing, ingestion and analytics.
- Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
- Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and operational skills
- 8+ years of meaningful engineering experience
What You Should Know About This Team
- When working on Analytics Platform, collaboration is essential. You will get the opportunity to work with other teams, and projects on a regular basis.
- The scale of the problems we are solving means your impact will scale as well. You will have the opportunity to make big impacts on performance, cost, and reliability.
- The need to scale means ample opportunities to learn about new and upcoming technologies to meet growing customer needs.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Fun and collaborative office environment with in office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor space, and of course, pinball!
- Quarterly team offsites, giving developers a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
- Education budget you can flexibly spend on topics that interest you.
- QED (Qualtrics Engineer Development) Program encourages all engineers to invest in themselves up to 10% of their time each quarter to advance their careers.
For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, and mental health benefits. For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.
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