Equity +, Hybrid , work at the beach!
Cardiff By the Sea, California
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.
Core skills & how you’ll use them
- 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, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.)
Handle fan-out processing, retries, backpressure, 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 - Large-scale ingestion systems
- Design and operate pipelines that ingest and process high volumes of data using event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years experience working in a team environment deploying technology solutions.
Leadership: Strong communication and leadership skills with a passion for building. Minimum of 3 professional references.
Location: Must be located in Southern California
Position
- Competitive salary and equity incentives
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- Hybrid Remote work benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Free lunches
please submit CV with brief 4-5 sentences note specifically describing how your recent experiences will help lead in this role.
sales AT ranwalk.com