Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

The role

You will design, build, and operate data systems that power AI products. This includes owning data pipelines, storage layers, and creating paved paths for engineers to work with data at scale.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-throughput data pipelines and streaming systems
• Build and operate real-time and batch ingestion infrastructure
• Own the analytical data layer including schema design and query performance
• Partner with research and product teams to architect data solutions
• Tune pipeline and query latencies
• Lead infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices for data systems
• Participate in on-call and drive down toil through automation

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production data infrastructure at scale
• Hands-on experience with ClickHouse, Kafka (or MSK/Pub-Sub/RabbitMQ), and Flink or dbt
• Proven track record meeting high availability and low latency targets
• Excellent observability chops (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog)
• Strong incident response discipline
• Clear written communication
• Ability to turn ambiguous data requirements into simple, reliable designs

Nice to have

• Experience with CDC tooling (Debezium) and orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect)
• Familiarity with Spark or Dask for large-scale data processing
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks)
• Experience being an early data/platform/infrastructure engineer at another company
• Strong Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS) and multi-cloud exposure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience with customer-managed deployments

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
• Parental Leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
• Daily lunches and snacks in the office
• Take what you need vacation policy

About the company

Decagon is a conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to deploy AI agents across various channels. The company is an in-office company driven by values like Just Get It Done and Winner’s Mindset.