Senior Software Engineer

Senior / Staff Software EngineerLocation: Costa Mesa, CA (Hybrid – minimum 3 days onsite)Base Salary: $190,000 – $220,000+ Visa Sponsorship: Not availableRole OverviewSenior / Staff Software Engineer responsible for building and owning a mission‑critical data platform supporting real‑time hardware and manufacturing systems. This is a core infrastructure role focused on scalability, reliability, and low‑latency data processing.ResponsibilitiesDesign and build real‑time streaming and batch data systemsOwn core platform architecture and implementationModernize and scale data lake infrastructureEnsure high availability, observability, and reliabilityPartner with analytics, hardware, and engineering teamsTechnical FocusReal‑time streaming pipelines (Kafka, Flink)Distributed compute (Spark)Backend services on top of data platformsPlatform reliability and operational toolingExperience & Requirements6+ years of software engineering experienceStrong background in data platforms and distributed systemsExperience owning data lake or platform architectureProficiency in:PythonSQLJava or ScalaSparkKafka or Flink