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Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

Attentive· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$150k - $205kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join Attentive’s Streaming team, shaping the future of the real-time event streaming architecture and tools that support high-throughput, low-latency messaging and personalization at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve Attentive’s next-generation event streaming platform: Design high-throughput, low-latency solutions that power mission-critical messaging, personalization, and data integration use cases across Attentive’s ecosystem
  • Enhance self-service for product engineering and data teams: Build and refine self-serve tools for event observability, debugging, load testing, and system configuration, empowering teams to experiment and ship quickly
  • 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
  • Solve complex distributed systems challenges: Improve event delivery reliability, cost efficiency, and system integration for real-time and batch workloads
  • Champion best practices and technology selection: Stay ahead of industry advancements in event streaming, advocating for tools and approaches that balance innovation with long-term reliability
  • Collaborate across engineering: Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to launch new customer-facing features, integrations, and scalable solutions built on streaming infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience architecting and supporting high-throughput, distributed systems at scale—especially those involving event streaming or messaging platforms
  • Deep understanding of the internals of distributed streaming frameworks such as Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, and/or Spark
  • Proficient in Java (Spring Boot) and familiar with modern development practices, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
  • Able to debug issues across the stack—from message serialization and event schemas to network and JVM tuning—and communicate tradeoffs clearly
  • Familiar with resource scheduling, data locality, and how infrastructure choices impact cost and system behavior
  • Experience with observability and developer tooling for streaming (e.g., tracing, metrics, replay). Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, Helm), comfortable with Kubernetes (EKS) and cloud-native environments
  • Track record of modernizing platforms: sunsetting legacy systems, moving to managed services, or implementing self-service capabilities
  • Excited by new technologies, but pragmatic about introducing them—focused on solving real business problems

Skills

Required:Event streaming / messaging architectureJava (Spring Boot)Distributed systems debuggingObservability toolingTerraform / HelmKubernetes (EKS)

Benefits

  • competitive perks and benefits including health & wellness, equity
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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