Staff Backend Engineer, Platform Engineering - KDE Query
About The Position
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks. Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and is critical to delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous. Platform Engineering consists of 3 teams; (1) Ingest, (2) KDE Storage and Query, (3) Network Data. As a staff engineer in platform engineering on the KDE Query Team, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform query layer that services the network monitoring data from the most influential companies on the internet. We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using Go/C/Rust, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines.
- A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team.
- Strong collaboration skills, essential for Kentik's remote-friendly culture.
Nice To Haves
- Deep experience with query planning, optimization, and execution in distributed environments, is a big plus.
- Proven track record of optimizing distributed systems to handle hundreds of millions of data points per second.
Responsibilities
- You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability & intelligence features.
- Act as a lead Individual Contributor to improve Query services, focusing on query speeds, throughput, and latency
- Collaborate with other engineering, support, and sales teams to drive platform-wide query standards.
- Solve high-visibility, challenging engineering problems related to the data-intensive query engine.
Benefits
- 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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