Senior Software Engineer - Data

Bitly is the world’s leading Connections Platform, empowering businesses to create memorable connections with their customers at every physical and digital touchpoint. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, millions of people around the world rely on Bitly for custom short links, QR Codes, and landing pages that are easy to create, share, and manage. With tools to track and optimize every interaction, we help businesses understand what drives the greatest impact.

As we continue to redefine how brands interact with customers, we’re looking for passionate individuals eager to drive innovation and shape the future of engagement. Join us in turning every click, tap, and scan into a powerful catalyst for connections.

We know the best teams bring different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. If you’re excited about a role and believe your skills and experiences align meaningfully with it, we encourage you to apply.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Bitly, you will architect, build, and maintain infrastructure responsible for delivering data to customers, as well as transforming our petabytes of global traffic data into useful and timely insights. This team also maintains many of the data pipelines that power our internal teams, making this a key role inside the company as well! Bitly supports every country in the world and every platform imaginable.

Our systems are built to process an enormous amount of data. To support our scale, our infrastructure consists of hundreds of servers, dozens of services, and numerous real‑time data streams.

• Work with people throughout the company to understand the goals, needs, and priorities of systems, and turn that understanding into a specific plan of action.
• Write well‑tested, well‑documented code.
• Build major new services and improve existing ones.
• Create pipelines to move and transform data efficiently.
• Design flexible internal and external APIs to expose our data.
• Work with a variety of data tools, both cloud‑based and internal.
• Mentor other engineers on best practices and implementation approaches.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least a year focused on data processing at scale.
• Adroit at clearly communicating technical concepts and ideas to other engineers and to other parts of the organization.
• Expert in SQL, and experience with at least one cloud SQL platform, such as Big Query or Redshift.
• Fluent in Python.
• Familiar with how web protocols, clients, and servers work.
• Takes initiative in addressing issues or seeking support from fellow team members.
• Experience using a flavor of version control — we use Git and Git Hub to collaborate and manage pull requests.

• Experience with Go (Golang).
• Experience with Scrum.
• Experience with Apache Airflow and Apache Beam.
• Experience with BI and visualization tools.
• Experience with Terraform.

Your benefits start on Day 1!

• Inclusive health, dental, and vision plans built to support diverse lifestyles.
• Employer contribution to HSA plans.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Enhanced support for reproductive health, family planning, and new parents.
• Robust mental health support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with confidential counseling services.
• Flexible PTO policy.

• Impactful connections and community building through our Employee Resource Groups
• Company-sponsored events to connect Bitizens together.
• 401k with up to 4% employer match, access to financial professionals to offer our employees the opportunity to plan for a strong financial future well beyond their working years.
• Stock Options.
• Life, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability options.
• Flexible workspace support provided, including home office, cell phone, and WiFi service reimbursement.
• Coworking reimbursement for eligible employees.
• Voluntary benefits: pet insurance, Legal Shield, IDShield, hospitalization, and accident coverages.
• Reimbursement for professional development.

US applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Bitly does not sponsor or support any immigration processing.

Must live in or be willing to relocate to one of the following states to be eligible for hire:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs.

Base Salary Range: $132,145 – $181,699 USD