As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform, you’ll be part of one of Orca’s most strategic engineering groups, tasked with building the core data ingestion and processing infrastructure that powers our entire platform. The team is responsible for handling billions of cloud signals daily, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency across Orca’s architecture.
You’ll work on large-scale distributed systems, own critical components of the cloud security data pipeline, and drive architectural decisions that influence how data is ingested, normalized, and made available for product teams across Orca. We're currently in the midst of a major architectural transformation, evolving our ingestion and processing layers to support real-time pipelines, improved observability, and greater horizontal scalability, and we’re looking for experienced engineers who are eager to make foundational impact!
Our Stack: Python, Go, Rust, SingleStore, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS
On a typical day you'll:
Write clean, concise code that is stable, extensible, and unit-tested appropriately
Write production-ready code that meets design specifications, anticipates edge cases, and accounts for scalability
Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
Implement new requirements within our Agile delivery methodology while following our established architectural principles
Lead initiatives end to end from design and planning to implementation and deployment, while aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring technical excellence
Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
Develop expertise of AWS, Azure, and GCP products and technologies
About you:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant experience
5+ years of professional software development experience
Proven experience building data-intensive systems at scale
Experience in working with micro-service architecture & cloud-native services
Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc
Hands-on experience with databases such as SingleStore, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis
Experience with Python / Go (Advantage)