Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Rust & AI) – 4624

Job Title: Senior Staff Software Engineer (Rust & AI)

Role Overview
A fast-growing data and analytics technology company is building a next-generation AI-powered analytics platform that helps global brands understand consumer behavior and advertising performance at massive scale. The organization combines large-scale data infrastructure with advanced machine learning to deliver real-time insights that power smarter decision-making.

This role sits at the center of a highly strategic initiative to build a new AI-native analytics engine from the ground up. You will work closely with executive engineering leadership and a team of highly skilled engineers to architect and build an advanced data platform that combines high-performance analytics infrastructure with agentic AI capabilities. The work involves designing systems capable of processing large-scale marketing and behavioral datasets with extremely low latency while enabling intelligent systems to autonomously explore data and generate insights.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and build a high-performance analytics engine featuring columnar storage, vectorized query execution, and OLAP-style analytical capabilities
• Design and develop an agentic AI framework that leverages the analytics engine to autonomously explore datasets and generate insight
• Build scalable systems capable of processing large marketing and behavioral datasets with sub-second performance
• Partner with product, engineering, and data teams to deliver AI-driven analytics capabilities that surface actionable insights automatically
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize system components for maximum throughput and low latency
• Architect and deploy scalable analytics infrastructure in a cloud environment
• Drive architectural direction across the broader data platform ecosystem
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and data engineering teams to integrate analytics capabilities across multiple products
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in performance engineering, distributed systems design, and scalable architecture
• Contribute to internal frameworks or open-source projects related to analytics systems and distributed computation

Education & Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years designing or building large-scale data platforms, analytics engines, or distributed data systems
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing in Rust in a production environment
• Strong expertise with both Rust and Java, ideally with experience transitioning high-performance systems from Java to Rust
• Deep experience building large-scale OLAP or analytics systems from scratch
• Strong understanding of columnar data engines, vectorized execution, and query optimization techniques
• Hands-on experience with performance engineering, system profiling, and hardware-aware optimization
• Expertise designing and operating large-scale data and compute systems in AWS
• Strong understanding of statistics, data analysis concepts, and analytical workloads

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with AI-driven analytics platforms or autonomous data exploration systems
• Familiarity with open-source analytical engines such as DuckDB, Apache DataFusion, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
• Experience modernizing or refactoring large legacy systems
• Experience contributing to open-source projects related to distributed systems or data infrastructure
• Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments

Why Us:

• Opportunity to build a next-generation AI-native analytics platform from the ground up
• Highly strategic engineering initiative with direct exposure to executive leadership
• Work on technically challenging problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and large-scale analytics
• Collaborate with experienced engineers and data infrastructure specialists
• Build systems designed to operate at massive data scale and extremely high performance
• Strong engineering culture focused on innovation, technical depth, and measurable impact

Benefits and Perks:

• 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• Competitive dependent healthcare coverage
• Equity participation through stock options
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Generous PTO policy
• Paid parental leave
• Disability and life insurance coverage
• Flexible hybrid work environment
• Catered meals and stocked office kitchen
• Team offsites and company social events
• Commuter benefits and health FSAs
• Employee counseling and wellness services

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future. This position does not offer sponsorship.

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