SW Applications Engineer

## Staff SW Applications Engineer Apply:
Hybrid:
San Jose, United States:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR100023

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** Job Description
** What you will do (Job Specific Details on the nature of the job and responsibilities).  ## Position details
** Title of position:
Staff Software Applications Engineer - Extreme Platform One
**** Position type:
** Full time - Onsite
*
* Location:

** San Jose, CA
** Position reports to:
** Sr Manager of Software Systems Engineering
** Final date to receive applications:
** Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and this posting will remain open until filled.
** Work authorization:
** We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time
** Scope:**
* ** Design, build, and scale
** a high-throughput data platform supporting enterprise-grade performance monitoring and analytics.
* ** Develop and optimize data streaming, processing, and storage solutions
** using technologies such as Kafka, Numaflow, Click House, Timescale DB, and Elasticsearch.
* ** Collaborate closely with platform, data, and engineering teams
** to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions.
* ** Drive continuous improvement
** in platform performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
* ** Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices**, with opportunities for professional development through certifications and technical training. ###
** Key Responsibilities
*** Data Platform Engineering
** Design and build real-time data ingestion pipelines using Kafka and Numaflow to process high-volume platform telemetry and monitoring events.
* Architect enrichment pipelines that transform raw event data into contextualized, actionable performance signals.
* Own the persistent storage strategy across Click House, Timescale DB, and Elasticsearch, matching each data store to the right access pattern, and optimize queries, indexing, and partitioning to meet latency and throughput targets at scale.
* Design data retention, rollup, and partitioning strategies that balance query performance with storage cost.
* Tune the EP1 performance monitoring platform to handle growing data volume and query concurrency.
* Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the full pipeline, from Kafka consumer lag to storage-layer query plans.
* Design for horizontal scalability, including partitioning, sharding, and load distribution across data stores.
* Establish capacity planning and load-testing practices for the platform's data infrastructure.
* Build, Deployment & Collaboration
** Support pre-deployment verification, including performance regression testing and security checks.
* Collaborate with QA to validate data pipeline correctness and system resilience under load.
* Apply secure coding practices and participate in code reviews with a security lens.
* Maintain documentation of system architecture, data flows, and operational runbooks.
* Partner with engineering, data, and platform teams on design reviews and technical decisions.  
** Job…