[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Data Systems (Python)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Northbeam is building the world's most advanced marketing intelligence platform, providing top eCommerce brands a unified view of their business data. The Senior Software Engineer, Data Systems will work with a cross-functional team to design and implement scalable data pipelines and maintain APIs for data integrations, ensuring data reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, high-performance data pipelines to ingest and transform data from a variety of sources, ensuring reliability, observability, and maintainability
- Build and maintain APIs that enable flexible, secure, and tenant-aware data integrations with external systems
- Work with event-driven and batch processing architectures, ensuring data freshness and consistency at scale
- Drive clean API design and integration patterns that support both real-time and batch ingestion while handling diverse authentication mechanisms (OAuth, API keys, etc.)
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to track data freshness, failures, and performance issues, ensuring transparency and reliability
- Optimize data flows and transformations, balancing cost, efficiency, and rapid development cycles in a cloud-native environment
- Collaborate with data engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to create an integration platform that is flexible, extensible, and easy to onboard new sources
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or integration engineering, with a focus on ETL, APIs, and data pipeline orchestration
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with API-based ETL, handling REST, GraphQL, Webhooks
- Experience implementing authentication flows
- Proficiency in SQL and BigQuery
- Experience with orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow) to manage and monitor complex data workflows
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) to deploy and scale workloads
- Ability to drive rapid development while ensuring maintainability, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform stability
- Detailed understanding of authentication mechanisms (OAuth 2.0, API keys, secrets management) and secure multi-tenant architectures
- Experience working with ERP systems, CRMs, CDPs, or complex other enterprise data tools and their APIs
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and real-time data processing tools
- Knowledge of data governance, compliance (GDPR, SOC2), and security best practices for handling sensitive data
- Experience working in a multi-tenant SaaS or large-scale data-intensive environment
Benefits
- Equity package
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible PTO policy
- 12 company-paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- $500 work-from-home stipend to support your remote setup
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