Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

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Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 153,000 - 213,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Operational ownership","Incident ownership","Code review standards"]

Build and operate backend platform capabilities for the Lake Analytics Platform, enabling teams to securely provision, deploy, govern, and operate data applications at scale. Partner to create integrations across CI/CD, identity/secrets, APIs, and event-driven hooks. Strengthen analytical data access with RBAC, masking, secure views, and cross-database grants while improving observability, incident response, and self-service automation.

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

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Job Summary

Build and operate backend platform capabilities for the Lake Analytics Platform, enabling teams to securely provision, deploy, govern, and operate data applications at scale. Partner to create integrations across CI/CD, identity/secrets, APIs, and event-driven hooks. Strengthen analytical data access with RBAC, masking, secure views, and cross-database grants while improving observability, incident response, and self-service automation.
Location: Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement platform features for automated provisioning, deploy pipelines, access control, service lifecycle management, and reliability tooling.
  • •Build and maintain integrations between the platform and internal systems using CI/CD, identity and secrets management, external APIs, and event-driven hooks.
  • •Operate secure data access patterns across analytical infrastructure, including RBAC, managed-access schemas, dynamic data masking, secure views, and cross-database grants.
  • •Automate recurring support patterns such as access provisioning, pipeline failures, service health management, and secrets management to enable self-service.
  • •Improve observability and incident response with telemetry, alerting, logs, runbooks, and operational patterns; participate in on-call coverage.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 153,000 - 213,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionTime OffEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience operating a cloud analytical data platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) including access control design, data masking/governance, and cost optimization.
  • •Experience building and operating containerized applications with Docker and CI/CD (Buildkite, GitHub Actions) plus production deployment automation.
  • •Ability to build internal platforms/developer tooling that enable self-service and a strong end-to-end developer experience.
  • •Proficiency integrating systems using REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhook ingestion, secrets management, and identity/SSO patterns.
  • •Backend fundamentals in Python and SQL, with operational instincts (instrumentation, runbooks, alerts, and durable incident follow-through).
Experience:Cloud analyticsData platforms
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOperational ownershipIncident ownershipCode review standards
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryDockerBuildkiteGitHub ActionsPythonSQLREST APIsOAuth/OIDCWebhook ingestionSecrets managementRBACDynamic data maskingSecure viewsTelemetryAlertingLog infrastructureSemantic layerLLM-integrated workflows

Company Brief

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Provides point-of-sale lending and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solutions for consumers and merchants, enabling installment payments, consumer financing, and embedded financial services through APIs and partnerships with retailers and platforms.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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