Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Advanced Analytics Platform (Rust + AI)

Disqo•Los Angeles, CA

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

At DISQO, we're redefining how companies turn data into decisions. Our mission is to make advertising and consumer behavior transparent, measurable, and actionable. We're now building the next evolution of analytics - an agentic, AI-powered system that lets users explore complex data intuitively and instantly. This is a highly strategic and visible initiative at the heart of DISQO's future. You'll work directly with our CTO and a team of talented, driven engineers to architect and build a next-generation AI analytics engine from the ground up - leveraging Agentic AI to shape the foundation for how data intelligence is delivered to customers worldwide.

Requirements

12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years architecting or building high-performance data systems or analytics platforms. 3+ years of product Rust experience.
Deep expertise in Rust and strong experience in Java. Ideally looking for individuals who have transitioned from Java to Rust.
Proven track record building large-scale data analytics or OLAP systems from the ground up.
Deep understanding of columnar data engines, vectorized execution, and query/dataframe optimization.
Hands-on experience with performance engineering, profiling, and hardware-aware optimization.
Strong expertise with AWS - designing, deploying, and optimizing large-scale data and compute systems in the cloud.
A systems-thinking mindset - you see software, data, and infrastructure as one cohesive system to tune and optimize.
Thrives in a fast-moving, startup environment - comfortable balancing hands-on execution with big-picture architectural thinking.
Strong foundation in statistics and data analysis concepts.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI-driven analytics, or experience with open-source engines such as Apache DataFusion, DuckDB or ClickHouse/chDB are big pluses.
Experience evolving / refactoring large brownfield solutions is a plus.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver a high-performance Advanced Analytics Engine - featuring vectorized query processing, columnar storage and OLAP capabilities - that redefines speed, scalability, and analytical depth while crunching marketing datasets with sub-second performance.
Design and build an Agentic AI system that leverages this Advanced Analytics Engine to drive autonomous, intelligent decision-making.
Partner with product, engineering and data teams to power agentic AI analytics systems that autonomously explore data and surface actionable insights.
Profile, benchmark, and optimize Rust components for maximum throughput, low latency, and hardware-aware efficiency.
Leverage AWS cloud services to architect scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient analytics infrastructure.
Shape the evolution of DISQO's broader data platform and its integration across our product ecosystem, leading architectural strategy and technical direction in close partnership with data and product engineering teams..
Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
Contribute to open-source or internal frameworks that advance analytical systems and distributed computation.