[Remote] Backend Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skill connects professional, IT, engineering, financial, and administrative talent with leading brands. The Backend Engineer will build, operate, and evolve a data analytics platform, including backend services and an OLAP data store, while developing internal tooling and supporting reliability, observability, and operational excellence across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and evolve a data analytics platform that includes backend services as well as an OLAP data store (Druid) for teams building analytics across the company
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and services that streamline integration patterns with our analytics platform
• Advocate for best practices in service design, data modeling, schema evolution, and contract testing to ensure long-term maintainability
• Work in an autonomous, cross-functional environment and collaborate with squads across the organization to continuously iterate and deliver on new product objectives

Skills

• 3+ years of relevant experience with distributed datastores and backend services
• Proficient in Java and excited to learn Kubernetes and Terraform
• Understanding of data modeling, dimensional schemas, and analytical query patterns
• Experience building internal developer tools, libraries, or shared services that support large engineering organizations
• Strong sense of ownership of service quality, SLOs, and operational excellence
• Familiar with OLAP databases or analytics warehouses (e.g., Druid, ClickHouse, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake)
• Comfort with metrics-driven development and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
• A strong communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
• Deeply curious and passionate about exploring both technical and organizational problems and domains
• Eager to learn new technologies and expand your area of expertise
• You MUST work EST hours
• Experience with Druid is a strong plus

Benefits

• Benefits
• 401k matching
• Health benefit contributions
• Retirement plans with match
• Flexible spending accounts

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