Staff Software Engineer, Prefect
Backend
$189-243k
Salary dependent on location + Equity Stock Options
Dataflow automation tools
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Dataflow automation tools
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$189-243k
Salary dependent on location + Equity Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
Prefect's mission is to empower its users by democratizing dataflow automation.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering roles, with a focus on web applications and distributed systems
- 5+ years of experience with Postgres and Redis, or similar
- 5+ years of experience with monitoring technologies (Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent)
- 5+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Robust background in asynchronous Python, with additional experience in systems programming languages (Go, C/C++, Rust) preferred
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining data intensive applications at scale
- Top-notch problem solving and communication skills - will take action to identify problems, propose solutions, and communicate to keep our team updated of progress and blockers
- Track record of leading successful projects and mentoring other developers, particularly with SaaS products at scale
- Drive innovation in development practices by strategically integrating AI and LLMs to accelerate development cycles, improve code quality, and optimize engineering workflows
What the job involves
- In this role you will work with the engineering team to architect, maintain, and scale our SaaS platform
- You will lead backend initiatives, mentor developers, and work closely with our product managers and designers to deliver high-quality, scalable web applications
- You will report to the Engineering Manager, Zach
- Architect, build, and scale Prefect’s SaaS platform in collaboration with engineering and cross-functional teams
- Exercise ownership of your work end-to-end, see it from problem definition through prototyping, development, and deployment to production
- Lead technical decision-making for backend engineering projects and establish best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, refine, and implement new features
- Contribute to the product roadmap and technical strategy
- Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and career development support to both senior individual contributors and early-career engineers
Our take
Building and managing data pipelines can be extremely time-consuming and complex, especially at scale. Prefect solves this problem with its dataflow automation platform.
Prefect's platform is designed to help data engineers reduce failures and increase confidence in their pipelines. This has the potential to drive revenue and efficiency by an impressive margin. Although its tools are especially useful at scale, Prefect serves a wide range of customers, from SMBs to enterprises. In 2021, the company raised an impressive $32 million in funding, which is further testament to the value of its platform.
Workflow automation is an increasingly competitive market, and Prefect's main challenge will be competing with rivals such as Google. However, with companies like Adobe, NASA and Apple all signing on to use its services, Prefect shows no signs of slowing down.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2021
$32m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$11.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.5m
Company benefits
- Remote-first culture
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- Free lunch and special meals
- $300/month WFH stipend
- $500 one-time stipend to set up your home office
- $50/month wellness stipend
- The latest MacBook and your favorite keyboard and mouse
- $1,000/year for professional development and education
- Special events, care packages and volunteering opportunities
- Donation matching
- Free Compass Coffee
- Enhanced mental health, financial, and legal support for you and your household
- Medical, dental & vision coverage
- Equity
- 401(k) with 5% Match
- FSA/HSA
- $50k life insurance policy, paid by the company
- Disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
Company values
- Impact
- Time is our most Valuable Resource
- Learning
- Execution
- Avoid Intertial Thinking
- Honesty
- People
- Belongingness
- Empathy
- Fail Successfully
Company HQ
Connecticut Ave/ K Street, Washington, DC
Articles
Leadership
Jeremiah Lowin
(CEO)Previously served as Manager of Market Risk at King Street Capital Management. Also founded Lowin Data Company, and currently serves as an Advisor at Spotify.
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