Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.

With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.

Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!

About the Role

We’re looking for a self-motivated, highly driven Software Engineer with a strong understanding of low-level distributed systems concepts - not just tool users, but systems thinkers. We want engineers who are comfortable reasoning about how infrastructure behaves under load, how services communicate over the network, and how data flows through complex architectures. Our team is focused on building the platform to support data driven products and strategic outcomes for our customers. We do this by providing an extensible and flexible compute platform to access highly available, mission critical data sets. 

• Architect high-throughput solutions that power our most critical operations, ensuring scalability and efficiency
• Expand and enhance our self-service platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to fuel our AI, ML, and analytics goals
• Tackle complex distributed data challenges, streamline system integrations, and uphold high standards of quality and governance
• Champion cutting-edge technologies, keeping our platform at the forefront of industry advancements and enabling strategic outcomes
• Unify data from diverse systems, paving the way for experimentation and innovation while empowering teams with intuitive tools and frameworks

• Track record of debugging issues across layers—from application logic to infrastructure bottlenecks—and understand the tradeoffs in system design, not just the settings in a managed UI
• You don’t just know how to run jobs in tools — you understand how they operate under the hood and how connected storage impacts performance
• You understand how simple storage API semantics (e.g. consistency, eventual visibility, multi-part uploads) affect job execution
• You recognize the impact of network I/O and data locality on performance and cost
• You understand how resource scheduling and JVM tuning influence distributed job behavior
• Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput scalable systems
• In-depth knowledge of high throughput processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, and/or Kafka. Proficiency in Java and strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and optimization
• You have development experience working with data warehouse tools like Snowflake, Clickhouse, Trino, etc 
• You’ve experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or Hudi
• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC
• You have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale and maintaining infrastructure as code via Terraform
• You are excited by new technologies but are conscious of choosing them for the right reasons

• Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s EKS
• Infrastructure tooling includes Istio, Datadog, Terraform, CloudFlare, and Helm
• Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Kinesis, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
• Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
• Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, lots of data and built with Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace 🤗, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas

You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.

For US based applicants:

- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,840 - $210,000 annually + equity + benefits

- Equity is a substantial part of the total compensation package

- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location

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Attentive Company Values

Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose

Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions

Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success

Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success

Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.

If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.

At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.