Senior Software Engineer, Platform
- Visa sponsorship is available
Senior Platform Engineer at AI-native analytics startup in NYC. Build agentic data lakehouse, distributed orchestration, ETL pipelines. Required: 4+ years backend/platform experience, Golang, gRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, PostgreSQL. On-site full-time, visa sponsorship available, salary $200k-$350k.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're a fast-growing, well-funded AI-native analytics company (Series A/B equivalent) building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data. Our platform helps organizations in highly regulated industries — including financial services and healthcare — query and reason over complex data using natural language, without heavy schema migrations or data movement.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll join the platform team shaping the data foundation that powers AI-driven analytics at scale. This is a zero-to-one, high-ownership role at a ~40-person company with strong investor backing and notable enterprise customers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Agentic Semantic Layer: Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results — making AI-generated analytics something teams can actually stake decisions on.
- Distributed Agent Orchestration: Design and implement orchestration systems for agents that interact with the real world — including API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth passthrough, model routing, scheduling, and token optimization.
- Agentic Data Engineering: Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses that make large-scale analytics possible for organizations with little to no dedicated data engineering resources.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Required
- 4+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Golang, with the ability to contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed
- Hands-on experience with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment
- Experience designing or implementing ETL pipelines, data modeling, or schema design for data platforms
- Experience building orchestration systems for distributed agents (API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth, model routing, scheduling, or token optimization)
- Prior experience at an early-stage startup, ideally building products from zero to one
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable professional experience
- Strong CS fundamentals
Nice to Have
- Experience with data visualization tools or big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, or similar)
- Background at a VC-backed startup
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually (depending on experience)
- Equity participation
- Visa sponsorship is available
LOCATION
This role is on-site in New York City, NY. Candidates must be willing and able to work in-office full-time. Fully remote arrangements are not available for this position.