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About the Role
Raft is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to support its customers and join its team of high-impact problem solvers. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a key resource for complex challenges, influencing decision-making, architectural designs, and technical direction. You will be expected to think critically, solve intricate problems, and mentor other engineers. This role involves hands-on collaboration to build a real-time data platform for the Department of Defense, enhancing operator awareness through real-time data aggregation from over 750 sensors, enrichment, and presentation as a common operational picture. The system processes over a billion events daily with millisecond-level latency, utilizing technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Build data infrastructure and platforms using streaming frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams
- Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations
- Leverage software engineering principles to architect, develop, and implement large scale streaming applications
Requirements
- Five plus years of relevant hands-on industry experience
- In-depth experience with building and managing fault-tolerant, data-intensive platforms using popular streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pinot, or Flink
- Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements
- Working experience in data management including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage
- Experience with building and releasing software in cloud-native environments
- Experience using a variety of package managers/dependency managers including Maven, Gradle, and NPM
- Deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns
- Obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
- Minimum Secret Clearance required
Skills
- Kafka
- Kafka Streams
- Pinot
- Java
- Scala
- Kubernetes
- Apache Kafka
- Flink
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
- ETL processing
- Data governance
- Data storage
- Maven
- Gradle
- NPM
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Fluentbit
- Kibana
- Loki
- Helm Charts
- Istio
- Python
- GoLang
Location
- U.S. based
- Continental U.S.
Work Type
- Remote
- Occasional onsite presence
- Travel up to 25%
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- Tech Lead Experience
Education Level
- Security+ certification
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $210,000
Benefits
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) and company match
- Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
- Education & training benefits
- Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
- Team off-site in fun places!
- Generous Referral Bonuses
About the Company
- Raft is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions.
- We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development.
- With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem.
- We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
- Our Vision Statement: We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.
- Our Customer Obsession: We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.
- How do we get there? Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.
- Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.