Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform - Seattle
About The Position
Qualtrics is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Analytics Platform, which supports all Qualtrics Experience Management products. The platform ingests, stores, processes, and analyzes experience data at scale, with a focus on high availability, high throughput, data consistency, and security. It enables customer, employee, brand, and product experience teams to build data-driven workflows and tools. The role involves developing SaaS software and designing, building, distributing, scaling, and operating services. The engineer will contribute across design and architecture, requirements gathering, full-stack development and delivery, operations, quality, benchmarking, and optimization. The position offers the opportunity to influence the team’s technical direction and vision, and to work on high-impact services with demanding scale and reliability requirements. The team collaborates across functions and with other teams to improve performance, cost, and reliability. The role is based on Qualtrics’ hybrid work model: employees work in the office three days per week—Mondays, Thursdays, and one day selected by the organizational leader—and may work where they want for the rest of the week. The position includes 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; examples include Elasticsearch, SQL, Starrocks, Spark, and Trino.
- Experience using advanced tools in distributed computing systems designed for large-scale data processing, ingestion, and analytics.
- Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
- Knowledge of open-source or industry-standard data-processing, storage, and serving technologies.
- Excellent troubleshooting and operational skills.
- At least 8 years of meaningful engineering experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, 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.
- Participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full-stack development and delivery, operations, quality, benchmarking, and optimization.
- Partner with UX, TechOps, and Product to achieve effective product designs.
- Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with peers, prioritize features, and consistently deliver value to customers.
- Serve on an on-call rotation.
- Identify hidden problems, question existing approaches, and help drive the team’s technical direction and vision.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) with match
- Paid time off
- Wellness reimbursement
- Mental health benefits
- Sign-on bonus may be included in an employment offer.
- Restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer.
- Office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor space, and pinball
- Quarterly team offsites
- Flexible education budget
- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) Program, which encourages engineers to invest up to 10% of their time each quarter in career development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
