Senior Software Engineer, Census
Backend/Platform
$180-230k
+ Equity
Universal data platform
Job no longer available
Universal data platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-230k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help companies build better operations with a modern data platform.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Proficiency
- Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc
- Expertise in at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc
- Solid understanding of relational databases (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)
- Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)
- Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience being on-call
- Autonomous and Self-Motivated - thrives in a high-trust environment, driving projects forward and making independent decisions with confidence
- Adaptable and Resilient - comfortably navigates ambiguity and views challenges as opportunities for growth
- Driven and Persistent - maintains a strong focus on goals, confidently overcoming obstacles and eagerly seeking innovative solutions to exceed expectations
- Able to work in-person in the Census SF or NY office 2-3 days a week
What the job involves
- The Platform (ETL) Team is at the heart of Census, tackling exciting challenges and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible! We own the core platform that backs Census’ sync engine
- We are responsible for keeping our customer data flowing smoothly - on time, every time. We design and implement projects like our recent Sync Tracking overhaul - enabling us to capture, store, and process huge datasets, giving customers complete visibility into what data is flowing through our pipes; providing the capability to verify that every record is getting where it needs to go
- We manage a constantly scaling and resizing fleet of machines to handle the dynamic needs of our customers, so one could call us the shadow infrastructure team as well
- Make valuable contributions to the deepest recesses of our tech stack – including writing typesafe Ruby and Rails with Sorbet, building performant Kotlin microservices, managing highly available Spark clusters, working on deterministic Temporal workflows, and Terraforming all the things in AWS
- Think in Parquet, live in cloud storage, and have data flowing through your veins
- Operate in hostile territory on all sides–building and managing a data diffing ETL engine that operates across every type of data warehouse and SQL dialect imaginable on data you don’t own or control, and send it to countless permutations of destinations that could respond any number of unpredictable ways
- Be a reliable and steadfast operator, participating in the team on-call rotation to help diagnose, triage and fix performance bottlenecks and gnarly edge-cases our customers discover. You’ll leave the campsite cleaner than you found it
- Work closely with our product team to help design and develop new features to improve data pipeline observability and debuggability, putting you on a first name basis with the data teams of many companies you have come to love and respect
- Inform much of our early culture and be part of creating a truly special team
Our take
Companies spend inordinate amounts of time and money building data warehouses and moving data from enterprise applications. Census smooths over that syncing process and makes the resultant information available to employees from across the company.
Unlike most business intelligence tools, Census operationalizes data directly from the data warehouse of a company, and syncs that information with a company’s favourite apps like Salesforce, Marketo and Zendesk. This allows non-data teams such as marketing and sales to access the accurate, up-to-date information they need without requiring coding skills or intensive support from data or developer teams.
The company believes that it can go further to refine its product and fulfil its ambition of building a platform that will allow non-technical users to build data-led queries. It is making positive strides in this direction, with a key move being the recent acquisition of Falcrum, an AI-powered customer segmentation platform. This strategic addition is set to fast-track Census's roadmap, bringing the company one step closer to its goals.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $80.3m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave. Growing family? Amazing! Congratulations. Take the time you need and don’t feel guilty doing it
- Flexible work schedule & unlimited PTO. Take the time you need to recharge
- 401k Matching for Canadian and US employees — investing in your future can be expensive so we want to help
- Medical, dental, and vision plans are heavily subsidized. 99% employer-paid medical coverage for you AND your dependents 🤯 (US employees)
- All the tools you need to do your best work
- Hybrid (SF, NYC, Denver) & remote work options
- Opportunities to grow within the company across all departments
- Ongoing support for professional learning & development
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Lynch
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously worked as a Product Manager for Google and a Group Product Manager for Dropbox. Also previously co-founded TapEngage, a YC-backed tablet advertising platform.
Anton Vaynshtok
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon.com and BlueKai, the latter of which was acquired by Oracle. Proceeded to found Meldium, which was acquired by LogMeIn.
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