Senior Software Engineer; Analytics Services

Job Description

In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large‑scale, globally distributed mission platform.

You will be responsible for a portfolio of Java‑based microservices and supporting analytics/search infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 based user interfaces.

This role requires someone who can combine search and aggregation architecture, query performance engineering, telemetry analytics, user‑facing analytics design, and operational ownership.

• Own the analytics services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform, including:
• user-facing analytics services
• search and aggregate query services
• event roll‑up and nested aggregation services
• telemetry analytics and APM‑related services
• analytics‑facing administrative and visualization interfaces
• Lead the design and delivery of Java‑based microservices supporting analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting workflows
• Own analytics architecture across three primary query/analysis patterns:
• regular queries on cached/indexed data
• composite aggregations across multiple fields returning aggregated results
• nested aggregations used for event rollups, hierarchy‑based summaries, and other advanced analytical needs
• Ensure that analytics services support both business/mission‑facing analytics and reporting, and operational telemetry analysis across services, infrastructure, and networking
• Tune and optimize analytic queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements, especially where analytics are embedded in real‑time transaction workflows
• Lead the design and operation of analytics services built on Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 based user interfaces
• Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategy for both operational and user‑facing analytics workloads
• Establish data models and service contracts that support analytics consistency across distributed deployments
• Work closely with data, platform, and software engineering teams to ensure high‑quality ingestion pipelines and well‑structured searchable data
• Own the service‑level health, scalability, and observability of analytics microservices
• Guide implementation of dashboards, visualizations, role‑specific analytics views, and reporting capabilities for different user groups
• Partner with operations and engineering teams to use telemetry and APM data to improve system reliability, identify bottlenecks, and support root‑cause analysis
• Lead major incident analysis where analytics or observability performance impacts mission or platform operations

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 additional years of experience can substitute for a degree.
• 10+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.
• Strong experience building and operating analytics or search services in production
• Strong hands‑on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and/or Grafana, Java‑based backend services / microservices
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical analytics domain from architecture through operations
• Experience leading engineering teams or multi‑team delivery for analytics/search platforms
• Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query, UI, and platform layers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain performance, scale, and trade‑off decisions clearly
• Proven experience with analytics patterns such as indexed query optimization, field aggregations and composite aggregations, nested/document‑based aggregations, rollups and summary generation, caching strategies for query performance
• Experience tuning analytics and search services for strict latency and SLA‑driven workflows
• Experience designing analytics services that serve both user‑facing business/mission use cases and internal operational telemetry and APM use cases
• Strong…