Software Engineer, Data Engineering

<div><em>Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. </em></div> <div> </div> <div><em>Superhuman team members in this role must be based in San Francisco or New York City. </em></div> <div> </div> <h3>About Superhuman</h3> <p>Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at <span class="s1"><a href="http://superhuman.com/">superhuman.com</a></span> and about our <a href="https://blog.superhuman.com/our-values/"><span class="s1">values here</span></a>.</p> <h3>The Opportunity</h3> <p>To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help us build a world-class data platform. Superhuman success depends on its ability to efficiently ingest over 60 to 70 billion daily events while using our systems to improve our product. This role presents a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex software systems, including contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and developing and shipping to production.</p> <p>Superhuman's engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our <a href="http://grammarly.com/blog/engineering">technical blog</a>.</p> <h3>Overview</h3> <p>As a Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will shape the architecture and technical strategy of our data platform, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency across data engineering systems. You will design and lead the implementation of robust, scalable, and reliable systems that handle large volumes of data, empowering both product features and data-driven decision-making across the company. Your work will span areas such as real-time ETL data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, data lakes, and back-end services.</p> <p>This role requires you to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including back-end engineers, Analytics engineering, Data Science engineering, and machine learning teams, to drive initiatives that support various business outcomes. As a senior IC, you will also mentor engineers and help set the strategic direction for the platform.</p> <p>In this role, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Architect and lead the development of large-scale systems for data pipelines, data lakes that handle billions of daily events.</li> <li>Design and implement solutions that ensure data is available, secure, and scalable across the platform, enabling real-time and batch processing.</li> <li>Make high-level architectural decisions about system design, technology choices, and platform evolution, ensuring scalability and long-term sustainability.</li> <li>Collaborate with key stakeholders, such as product teams, data engineers, back-end developers, and ML engineers, to build tools frameworks that power analytics, product features, and data-driven workflows.</li> <li>Work with business stakeholders such as Analytics Engineering and Data Science teams to build high-impact data products enabling business-critical features, research, and experimentation with ... (truncated, view full listing at source)