Software Engineer II - Data Platform - Seattle

Qualtrics•Seattle, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Qualtrics is hiring a Software Engineer II for its Data Platform team, which supports the company’s experience management products. The platform ingests, stores, processes, and analyzes experience data at scale, with an emphasis on high availability, throughput, consistency, and security. It enables product teams to develop data-driven workflows and tools for customers. The engineer will build and operate SaaS services, including scalable, robust, highly available, data-intensive microservices. The role contributes across design and architecture, requirements gathering, full-stack development and delivery, operations, quality, benchmarking, and optimization. The engineer will work with UX, TechOps, Product, and other engineering teams to deliver and improve features and services. The position is based on Qualtrics’ hybrid work model: employees work in the office three days a week—Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by their organizational leader—and may work where they choose the rest of the week. The role includes participation in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Expertise in algorithmic execution, data structures, and data modeling.
Ability to estimate and deliver on coding objectives.
Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies.
Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
Knowledge of open-source or industry-standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
Excellent troubleshooting skills.
2–5 years of meaningful engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with containerization and full-stack development.
Experience with caching, routing, queue management, and event-driven systems.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
Interest or experience in mentoring and leading teammates.

Responsibilities

Build, distribute, scale, and operate SaaS software and services.
Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data-intensive microservices.
Implement new features and optimize existing features to provide customer value.
Collaborate with UX, TechOps, Product, and other teams to achieve effective product designs and deliver solutions.
Participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full-stack development and delivery, operations, quality, benchmarking, and optimization.
Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with peers, prioritize features, and consistently deliver customer value.
Serve on an on-call rotation.

Benefits

In-office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor garden space, and pinball.
Quarterly team offsites.
Education budget.
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
401(k) with match.
Paid time off.
Wellness reimbursement.
Mental health benefits.
Experience bonus.
A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer.