Attentive
Staff Software Engineer, Streaming
United States · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$250kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaKotlinReactViteSpringDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLRedisDynamoDBAWSKubernetesTerraformHelmDatadogGraphQLKafkaMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchPandasSparkAirflow
About the role
- Attentive's streaming platform is the backbone of our messaging and personalization ecosystem, powering billions of events and processing over 2 million messages per second in real time.
- Your impact will extend well beyond a single service or team: you'll shape how Attentive scales real-time systems, improves reliability and observability, and unlocks new capabilities for experimentation, personalization, and growth.
- Simplify and modernize streaming architecture: Remove unnecessary abstraction layers, enable direct access for power users, and ensure the platform is flexible for both "paved path" and advanced use cases
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve Attentive's next-generation event streaming platform; design high-throughput, low-latency, and cost-efficient solutions that power mission-critical products and use cases across Attentive's ecosystem
- It sits at the center of how engineering teams across Attentive build responsive, customer-facing products at scale.
- Collaborate across engineering: Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to launch new customer-facing features, integrations, and scalable solutions built on streaming infrastructure
- We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
- Able to debug and optimize end-to-end streaming systems, from schemas and serialization to consumer behavior, JVM performance, networking, and infrastructure bottlenecks
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and lead through collaboration rather than authority
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience architecting and supporting high-throughput, distributed systems at scale-especially those involving event streaming or messaging platforms
- Strong proficiency in Java and backend systems design, with the ability to work across application, platform, and infrastructure layers
- Experience with observability and developer tooling for streaming (e.g., tracing, metrics, replay)
Skills
- Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect.
- Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, Helm), comfortable with Kubernetes (EKS) and cloud-native environments
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $250,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
Company info
- Attentive Company Values
- Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
- At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees.
Equal opportunity
- Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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