Posted 6 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
@ hireVouch
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Data Platform team. The role leads design and optimization of the data platform behind its API, covering streaming, storage and analytics at petabyte scale for high-volume telematics data. Requires 6+ years in platform or data engineering and strong Java skills.
Responsibilities:
- Own projects for data storage, replication, enrichment and reporting
- Build and optimize streaming and batch data pipelines
- Design scalable storage for petabytes of IoT and time-series data
- Set architectural direction and raise the technical bar across the team
Requirements summary:
- 6+ years in platform or data engineering
- 4+ years designing pipelines at TB to PB scale
- Proficient in Java with clean, maintainable code
- Experience with lake-house architectures and Kafka, Flink or Spark
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-05-08
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-31
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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About the role
We’re looking for an engineer who thrives on building scalable data platforms and enjoys tackling complex backend challenges. This isn’t just a data engineering role, you’ll be designing and optimizing the data platform that powers our API, managing everything from data streaming and storage to analytics features at petabyte scale.
You will lead building the data platform for the long-term vision. You’ll not only design and deliver complex systems, but also drive technical strategy, set architectural direction, and influence how the data platform evolves. You’ll partner closely with product, engineering teams, and leadership to ensure we’re building the right abstractions and reusable components that scale with our growth. You know when to slow down to build the right solution vs. work against time. This is a role with broader ownership, where your leadership and judgment will raise the technical bar across the team and directly impact how customers succeed with high-volume telematics data.
What you will do
Own projects aimed at enhancing data storage, replication, enrichment, and reporting capabilities.
Build and optimize efficient streaming and batch data pipelines that support our core product and API.
Design scalable storage solutions for handling petabytes of IoT and time-series data.
Develop and maintain real-time data systems to ingest growing data volumes.
Implement distributed tracing, data lineage and observability patterns to improve monitoring and troubleshooting.
Manage infrastructure that powers the current and future services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and zero downtime for HA services.
Write clean, maintainable code in Java and Python for various platform components.
Shape architectural decisions to ensure scalability and reliability throughout the data platform.
The ideal candidate will have
6+ years of experience in platform engineering or data engineering.
4+ years of experience designing and optimizing data pipelines at TB to PB scale.
Proficient in Java, with a focus on clean, maintainable code.
Strong system design skills with a focus on big data and real-time workflows.
Experience with lake-house architectures (e.g., Iceberg, Delta, Paimon).
Experience with real-time data processing tools like Kafka, Flink and Spark.
Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale data challenges.
Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
Note: You don't need to check every box. Java experience is strongly preferred, but if you're confident you can pick it up quickly, we're open to that. Same goes for other competencies on this list.
Nice to haves
Experience working with orchestration / workflow engines (e.g. Step Functions, Temporal)
Experience with serverless and/or event-driven architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda, SQS).
Experience with Javascript/Typescript languages (for cross team work)
Tech stack
Languages: Java, Python
Framework: Springboot
Storage: AWS S3, AWS DynamoDB, Apache Iceberg, Redis
Streaming: AWS Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink
ETL: AWS Glue, Apache Spark
Serverless: AWS SQS, AWS EventBridge, AWS Lambda and Step Functions.
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
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