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Software Engineer, Data Systems

Gamma
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San Francisco, CA$230k - $310kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Data Engineer role focused on owning Gamma's data infrastructure and end-to-end event pipeline architecture at scale, including Kafka, Snowflake, and data governance. Combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to enable data-driven decisions across analytics, product, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve our end-to-end event pipeline architecture, from Kafka ingestion through Snowflake analytics, setting technical direction for data infrastructure
  • Design and architect distributed data systems that scale to orders of magnitude more data volume while maintaining world-class query performance
  • Lead initiatives to build and optimize CDC (change data capture) pipelines and streaming data transformations at massive scale
  • Establish best practices for data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability across the organization
  • Drive strategic technical decisions about data modeling, infrastructure architecture, and technology choices
  • Mentor engineers and elevate data engineering practices across analytics, product, and engineering teams

Qualifications

  • 10+ years as a data or software engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and high-growth SaaS products at massive scale
  • Expert-level knowledge of Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, stream processing) and event streaming platforms
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance optimization, cost management, and data modeling; strong foundation in Postgres, CDC patterns, and replication strategies
  • Proven track record architecting and leading major data infrastructure initiatives through orders-of-magnitude growth
  • Experience establishing best practices and driving technical strategy across organizations
  • Strong communication skills with a history of influencing technical direction across engineering, analytics, and leadership
  • Proficiency with dbt, Terraform, and working knowledge of data governance, privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and security best practices

Skills

Required:Distributed data systemsApache KafkaSnowflakePostgreSQLCDC patternsdbt
Nice to have:Terraform
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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