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 focuses on 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 involves working on high-impact services with demanding scale and reliability requirements, and collaborating regularly with other teams. The role is based in Seattle and follows a hybrid model: employees work in the office Mondays, Thursdays, and one additional day selected by their organizational leader, and may work from another location for the rest of the week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8+ years of meaningful engineering experience.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, distribute, scale, and operate SaaS services.
- Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data-intensive microservices.
- Implement new features and optimize existing features to provide customer value.
- Partner with UX, TechOps, and Product to achieve the best product designs.
- 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, and prioritize features.
- Serve on an on-call rotation.
- Help drive the team’s NorthStar and vision, and identify hidden problems and opportunities for improvement.
- Contribute to performance, cost, and reliability improvements across the platform.
Benefits
- In-office amenities, food, drinks, and outdoor space.
- Quarterly team offsites.
- Education budget.
- QED (Qualtrics Engineer Development) Program, with up to 10% of an engineer’s time each quarter for career development.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- 401(k) with match.
- Paid time off.
- Wellness reimbursement.
- Mental health benefits.
- A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
