We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own the systems that transform our unified dataset into application-ready content and robust downstream analytics.
Requirements
- Design and maintain application-level data models that organize rich content into canonical structures optimized for product features, search, and retrieval.
- Build high-reliability ETLs and streaming pipelines to process usage events, analytics data, behavioral signals, and application logs.
- Develop data services that expose unified content to the application, such as metadata access APIs, indexing workflows, and retrieval-ready representations.
- Implement and refine fingerprinting pipelines used for deduplication, rights attribution, safety checks, and provenance validation.
- Own data consistency between ingestion systems, application surfaces, metadata storage, and downstream reporting environments.
- Define and track key operational metrics, including latency, completeness, accuracy, and event health.
- Collaborate with Product teams to ensure content structures and APIs support evolving features and high-quality user experiences.
- Partner with Analytics and Research teams to deliver clean usage datasets for experimentation, model evaluation, reporting, and internal insights.
- Operate large analytical workloads in BigQuery and build reusable Dataflow/Beam components for structured processing.
- Improve reliability and scale by designing robust schema evolution strategies, idempotent pipelines, and well-instrumented operational flows.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary and equity
- Quarterly productivity budget
- Flexible time off
- Fantastic office location in Manhattan
- Productivity package, including ChatGPT Plus, Claude Code, and Copilot
- Top notch private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan options with employer matching
- Concierge medical/primary care through One Medical and Rightway
- Mental health support from Spring Health
- Personalized life insurance, travel assistance, and many other perks
