Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Phaidra

10h • Remote

About The Position

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation with AI-powered control systems. These systems enable industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time using reinforcement learning algorithms. Phaidra focuses on industrial applications with measurable KPIs, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions. Domain experts can configure AI control systems without writing code. The team has a strong track record in applying AI to complex problems, including AlphaGo and reducing Google Data Centers' energy consumption. Phaidra values Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy. The company is 100% remote, hiring internationally through OysterHR, with team members across various countries.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed or data-intensive systems.
• Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
• Proven expertise building, operating, and monitoring large-scale multi-tenant systems while accounting for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting.
• Approach your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency, directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.
• Experience with latest batch & realtime data processing, storage & service technologies such as Apache Flink.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience designing environment-agnostic abstractions that let applications run across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments, with working knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with self-service data platforms, data lakes, or lakehouses at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable components for the data platform that enable high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
• Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of API services and scalable event-driven applications that power the product backend.
• Design clear, extensible software interfaces for internal consumers and maintain a high release-quality bar.
• Design and optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security, and ease of access.
• Own and operate your services in production, including releases, deployments, and on-call rotations, meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers, and TPMs across teams.
• Mentor your peers and be a technical role model on the team.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation & meaningful equity.
• Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
• Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).
• Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year.
• Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).
• Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development.
• Company MacBook.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees