Staff Engineer - Backend

Role Summary

As a Staff Engineer, you provide strong technical leadership and hands-on ownership of core backend services and pipelines. You will anchor one primary domain (NELD or Ingestion) and influence cross-team architecture and execution.

You are expected to:

• Own key service architectures
• Design scalable ingestion and compliance workflows
• Ensure data quality, correctness, and reliability
• Mentor engineers and drive high engineering standards

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Technical Ownership

• Own architecture, design, and evolution of platform services within NELD and/or Ingestion.
• Drive system design for large cross-service features from ingestion to downstream consumers.
• Define and maintain clean service boundaries, APIs, and data contracts.

Platform Systems Development

• Design scalable, high-throughput ingestion pipelines for logs, telematics, and event data.
• Build and optimize streaming and batch data workflows.
• Translate HOS/ELD regulatory requirements into robust system behavior and guardrails.
• Ensure correctness, ordering, idempotency, and fault tolerance across workflows.

Reliability Observability

• Define and uphold SLOs for latency, availability, and data accuracy.
• Champion best practices in logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Design for backpressure handling, graceful degradation, and system recovery.

Data Modeling Storage

• Design data models and partitioning strategies for hot and cold data.
• Select appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, time-series, object storage) balancing scale, performance, and cost.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Data, Compliance, and Engineering teams to deliver domain initiatives.
• Lead design reviews, contribute to RFCs, and support cross-team architecture discussions.

Mentorship Engineering Quality

• Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems, and platform thinking.
• Improve code quality, documentation, and operational best practices.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong CS fundamentals (DSA system design).
• Deep hands-on backend experience with Java, Spring Boot.
• Strong grounding in distributed systems concepts: consistency, durability, retries, idempotency, backpressure, partitioning, resilience.
• Practical experience with Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar or similar.
• Experience operating production systems (on-call, incidents, postmortems).
• Excellent communication and technical leadership ability.

Preferred Skills

• Experience building high-throughput ingestion or streaming systems.
• Exposure to compliance-heavy or audit-driven domains (transportation, fintech, healthcare).
• Experience with edge or intermittently connected devices.
• Hands-on work with observability stacks.
• Prior experience in ELD / HOS / telematics is a plus.

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