Your browser does not support javascript! Please enable it, otherwise web will not work for you.

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Home > Python programming jobs

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform in USA new

  • Beacon Biosignals
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and architecture for complex Datastore projects and systems.
  • Design and scale PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, and backend data infrastructure.
  • Own dataset snapshot pipelines into the warehouse and develop integrations, services, and APIs for clinical and scientific workflows.
  • Debug and profile ambiguous cross-system problems while improving structure, test coverage, tooling, and maintainability.
  • Draft RFCs, lead technical discovery, incorporate stakeholder input, and guide implementation decisions.
  • Plan individual and team work while balancing speed, generalizability, technical debt, and stakeholder needs.
  • Mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback, and serve as a technical lead or engineering-practice coordinator.
  • Improve operational robustness and usability through documentation, tools, and dashboards.
  • Design and operate PostgreSQL systems, including schema evolution, migrations, replication, backups, connection pooling, vacuum behavior, and extensions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and production PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexes, query plans, query tuning, and EXPLAIN (ANALYZE).
  • Deep expertise in at least one of data modeling, distributed systems, API design, or database engineering.
  • Hands-on data streaming and event-processing experience with Kafka or an equivalent such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis.
  • Proficiency in Julia or Python; Julia experience is preferred but not required.
  • Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments, with familiarity with Kubernetes and Terraform and/or Helm.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team practices, tooling, test coverage, or documentation.
  • For the Datastore Systems focus, experience with GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript, including Node.js, plus end-to-end event-driven pipeline design.
  • For the PostgreSQL & Data Modeling focus, expertise in query planning, index selection, schema design, zero-downtime migrations, lock avoidance, backfills, verification, and production PostgreSQL operations.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, self-direction, and experience working in hybrid or fully remote teams.
  • Experience with or interest in LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production, with sound judgment about guardrails.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work from anywhere in the U.S.
  • Access to in-person office hubs in Boston, New York City, and Paris.
  • Asynchronous work practices designed to support a first-class remote experience.
  • Total compensation includes equity, PTO, and other benefits.

Salary: $170k - $190k/yr

Beacon Biosignals

Beacon Biosignals builds an AI platform and FDA-cleared at-home EEG wearables used by biopharma and clinicians to develop and deliver treatments for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. It sells clinical development services and software for brain-signal analysis to life sciences partn...

Similar positions

Senior Data Analytics Engineer

  • MariaDB plc
  • Full time
  • Remote
  • 10/02/2026
  • Salary: Competitive
  • India

Staff Engineer SDET

  • Aviatrix
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 10/02/2026
  • Salary: $189k - $223k/yr
  • Santa Clara, CA

Senior Data Engineer

  • TTEC Digital
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 10/02/2026
  • Salary: $155k-$175k
  • Remote

Senior Staff Engineer, Product Security

  • Druva
  • Full time
  • Others
  • 10/02/2026
  • Pune, India

Senior Data Engineer

  • D.A. Davidson
  • Full time
  • Remote
  • 10/02/2026
  • Salary: $120k-$126k
  • USA - West

Listings

by


Job Type

Language

Country

CodingJobBoard.com © 2026