Senior Software Engineer, Platform

### About the Role Join the platform team at a well-funded, early-stage AI data analytics startup building an **agentic data lakehouse** that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data at scale. As a **Senior Software Engineer, Platform**, you'll shape the data foundation that powers AI-driven analytics — no heavy schema migrations or data movement required. This is a high-ownership, zero-to-one role on a small, high-caliber team. ### What You'll Do - **Agentic Semantic Layer:** Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results — raising the bar for trustworthy, AI-generated analytics. - **Distributed Agent Orchestration:** Design and implement orchestration systems for agents interacting with the broader world — covering API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth passthrough, model routing, scheduling, and token optimization. - **Agentic Data Engineering:** Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses that make large-scale analytics accessible to organizations with minimal data engineering resources. - Contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as the team and product evolve. ### What We're Looking For **Required** - 4+ years of hands-on experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems. - Proficiency in **Golang** — this is a hard requirement. - Experience with **gRPC / ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB,** and **PostgreSQL** in a distributed data platform environment. - Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable practical experience. - Background at early-stage, VC-backed startups or demonstrated experience building products from zero to one. - Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies. **Nice to Have** - Familiarity with semantic layers, ontologies, or metadata management in enterprise data environments. - Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM orchestration patterns. - Comfort owning work across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed. ### Compensation & Benefits - **Salary:** $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually - Visa sponsorship is available ### Location This role is **on-site in New York City, NY** (Financial District). Candidates must be willing and able to work in-office full-time. Remote or fully-distributed arrangements are not available for this position.