Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform & Distributed Systems

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform & Distributed Systems

Why Kaseya?

Join a fast-growing company that’s transforming the IT industry. At Kaseya, you’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, collaborate with a dynamic team, and develop your career in a high-impact role.

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Job Summary

We’re hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of Kaseya’s data platform, supporting real-time processing, analytics, and AI-powered product capabilities. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on distributed systems, event streaming, data infrastructure, and building reliable services that operate at scale. You will work across Data Engineering, Platform, Product, and AI/ML teams to define technical direction, lead complex engineering initiatives, and build reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products.

Roles & Responsibilities

Define and drive architecture for large-scale data platforms, including ingestion, event streaming, distributed processing, storage, and data-serving services

Lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams, establishing reusable platform components and reducing reliance on individual data pipelines

Design and improve event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar distributed processing frameworks

Guide the development of reliable data ingestion and change data capture (CDC) systems, including schema evolution, ordering, replay, and failure recovery

Drive technical decisions around data storage, lakehouse architectures, analytical databases, and data access patterns based on performance, scalability, and cost

Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical prototyping, critical implementation, production debugging, and performance optimization

Improve platform reliability, observability, data quality, and operational readiness across real-time and analytical workloads

Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers, establish engineering standards, and partner with technical leadership on platform modernization and long-term architecture decisions

Required Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience building production backend systems, distributed systems, or large-scale data platforms

Experience leading architecture and technical delivery of data platform initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams or services

Experience designing and operating production event-streaming or distributed processing systems using Kafka, Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar technologies

Experience designing production data ingestion, CDC, or distributed processing systems, including handling schema evolution, retries, ordering, replay, and failure recovery

Experience developing and operating cloud-based data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP using Java, Go, Python, Scala, Rust, or similar programming languages

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, or other stateful stream-processing technologies

Experience with CDC technologies such as Debezium, Kafka Connect, or database replication frameworks

Experience with lakehouse architectures and technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, or Amazon S3

Experience with analytical databases and query engines such as ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Pinot, or Druid

Experience with data governance, schema registries, data contracts, lineage, metadata management, or data quality frameworks

Experience building multi-tenant or multi-region data platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, or similar cloud-native technologies

Experience supporting production AI/ML platforms, feature engineering, RAG, vector search, or real-time inference workloads

Additional Information

Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other

Additional information
Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.