Tatari

Senior Backend Engineer

Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$200kDetected 12 days ago

PythonDistributed SystemsCode ReviewSQLRedshiftDatabricksGraphQLRESTgRPCKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowdbtData ScienceLLMsRAG

About the role

Tatari has also been recognized as the Best Place to Work by Inc.
In this role, you will contribute to system architecture decisions, mentor junior team members, promote best practices, and ship high-quality code to production daily.
At Tatari you are empowered to do your best work at a sustainable pace with a stellar group of smart, creative, and humble human beings.

Architect and own the development of new features
Collaborate with tact and lead with empathy across the organization on system architecture, technology, and scaling decisions
Design relational and non-relational data models for optimal storage, retrieval, and complex processing/calculations
Drive technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews
Team building events

6+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages - Python required
Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Cody) to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar
Experience evaluating and deploying LLM-based systems in production (latency, cost, reliability trade-offs)
4+ years with a modern data stack ( RDS, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, lakehouse architectures, real-time databases, dbt, etc.)
Deep SQL and data modeling expertise
Experience working across the organization delivering on large impact initiatives
6+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages
Python required
4+ years building distributed systems at scale

Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, or fine-tuning
Total compensation ($170,000 - $200,000)
$150 monthly spending account
Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office

That approach has earned Tatari broad industry recognition, including being named Best CTV AdTech Platform in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, as well as honors from Digiday ( Best Connected TV Platform), AdExchanger ( Most Innov

Collaborate effectively with Data Science, Product, and across engineering teams to push boundaries, shape our roadmap, and deliver on our mission

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