Senior Backend​/Systems Engineer

Random Walk has delivered best in class alternative data insights focused on consumer email behavior for over a decade.

We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to help design and operate high-volume, distributed backend systems
. This role focuses on data ingestion, asynchronous processing, and scalable service design in a production environment with real-world constraints.

You’ll be expected to own critical backend components end-to-end and make pragmatic decisions around performance, reliability, and cost.

• Backend programming (Go, Python) Build and maintain high-throughput services and background workers.
• Asynchronous & event-driven systems Design pipelines using queues and workers to process large volumes of data reliably.
• Message queues & streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis, etc.) Handle fan-out processing, retries, back pressure, and fault isolation.
• Third-party API integrations Build resilient integrations that handle rate limits, partial failures, retries, and schema changes.
• OAuth2 & secure access patterns Implement token-based access flows and manage long-lived integrations safely.
• Structured & unstructured data processing Normalize, parse, and extract meaningful data from inconsistent inputs (HTML, text, metadata).
• Distributed system reliability Implement idempotency, deduplication, observability, and graceful failure handling.
• Cloud & containerized environments Deploy and operate services using Docker and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes experience is a plus).
• ML inference or classification pipelines Integrate or operate inference/classification workflows (rules-based, ML-based, or hybrid) in production systems
• Design and operate pipelines that ingest and process high volumes of data using event-driven and asynchronous architectures.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Minimum of 5 years experience working in a team environment deploying technology solutions.

Strong communication and leadership skills with a passion for building. Minimum of 3 professional references.

Must be located in Southern California

• Competitive salary and equity incentives
• Free lunches

please submit CV with brief 4-5 sentences note specifically describing how your recent experiences will help lead in this role.