Staff Software Engineer - Data Query

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Salary

$191K-$224K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

78% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer - Data Query United States, Remote Staff Software Engineer - Data Query As a Staff backend engineer on the Data Query team, you will build a scalable, reliable, and performant analytics platform for observability and security products, enabling customers to rapidly perform high-quality, real-time analyses of events and incidents. The Data Query team manages the engine for querying exabytes of logs data, millions of metrics data points, and terabytes of tracing data every day. Your core responsibilities include designing and implementing highly performant code to minimize CPU and memory overhead, directly impacting our platform's operational costs and performance. Responsibilities - Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data - Resource Efficiency: Optimize code to reduce latency and resource footprint in a microservices environment - Write robust code : demonstrate its robustness through automated tests - Cost Tracking: Implement telemetry and logging to help the PM team track granular cost-per-service metrics - Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations and help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in production - Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs Requirements - B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline - 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership - Object-oriented experience, for example, in Java, Scala, Ruby, or C++ - Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc) - Experience in building backend services

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