Software Engineer, Data Systems

Gamma
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Leadership"]

Lead data infrastructure as Gamma scales to hundreds of millions of users, owning end-to-end event pipeline architecture from Kafka to Snowflake. Balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring teams, and shaping data stack strategy. Collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering leadership to enable data-driven decision making at scale.

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Gamma
Gamma
10 months ago

Software Engineer, Data Systems

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Job Summary

Lead data infrastructure as Gamma scales to hundreds of millions of users, owning end-to-end event pipeline architecture from Kafka to Snowflake. Balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring teams, and shaping data stack strategy. Collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering leadership to enable data-driven decision making at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and evolve our end-to-end event pipeline architecture, from Kafka ingestion through Snowflake analytics, setting technical direction for data infrastructure
  • •Design and architect distributed data systems that scale to orders of magnitude more data volume while maintaining world-class query performance
  • •Lead initiatives to build and optimize CDC (change data capture) pipelines and streaming data transformations at massive scale
  • •Establish best practices for data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability across the organization
  • •Drive strategic technical decisions about data modeling, infrastructure architecture, and technology choices
  • •Mentor engineers and elevate data engineering practices across analytics, product, and engineering teams

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years as a data or software engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and high-growth SaaS products at massive scale
  • •Expert-level knowledge of Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, stream processing) and event streaming platforms
  • •Extensive hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance optimization, cost management, and data modeling; strong foundation in Postgres, CDC patterns, and replication strategies
  • •Proven track record architecting and leading major data infrastructure initiatives through orders-of-magnitude growth
  • •Experience establishing best practices and driving technical strategy across organizations
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsData infrastructureSaaSData engineering
Skills:CommunicationMentoringLeadership
Tech Stack:KafkaSnowflakePostgreSQLCDCDbtTerraform

Company Brief

Gamma
Gamma (gamma.app) is an AI-powered visual storytelling platform that generates presentations, websites, documents, and social content from text or briefs — combining AI design agents, smart layouts, and collaboration tools for fast, polished outputs.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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