Samba
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
San Francisco, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$200kDetected 25 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLBigQueryAWSGCPCloud PlatformsRESTData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsAgentic AI
About the role
- The backend work here is not just CRUD: it spans analytical SQL over large-scale TV viewership datasets, Firestore-backed caching pipelines, a multi-cloud environment (GCP and AWS), and a non-trivial auth model.
- We care about engineers who think in systems, take ownership of correctness and reliability, and are comfortable doing the archaeology that real production codebases require.
Responsibilities
- Experience building backend services and APIs - RESTful design, authentication patterns, token-based auth flows
- Proficient in agentic development - building or integrating LLM-powered workflows, tool-use patterns, or AI agents in production
- Our engineers own meaningful systems end-to-end, ship production code every week, and work directly with product, data science, and go-to-market teams to deliver outcomes that matter.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience building and operating production software
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure: serverless or managed compute, object storage, secret management, scheduled jobs
- Familiarity with eventual consistency and cache invalidation patterns in distributed systems
Nice to have
- Samba is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- For residents of the EU, Samba Inc. is the data controller.
- BigQuery or similar analytical datastore experience a plus
- Comfortable writing non-trivial SQL - window functions, aggregations, query optimization
Compensation
- $160k-$200k
Company info
- Samba is a media intelligence company.
- We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about - in real time, at scale, across every screen.
- Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built.
- The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions.
- We think it's the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it's the most culturally relevant.
- What We're Looking For
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