staff software engineer

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer in Data Platform Services team, youll architect and lead the evolution of metadata services at the heart of our analytics platform: data contracts, the Data Product Catalog, data quality and observability frameworks, and data delivery/subscription systems. Analytics drives everything at Lytx—from collision prevention to driver coaching across 700,000 vehicles worldwide. Youll build the platform capabilities that enable domain teams to confidently deliver analytics-powered safety features at multi-tenant scale with low-latency delivery and enterprise-grade governance. If you want to build the platform that makes analytics-driven safety possible at scale, this role is for you.

You’ll Get To

• Architect foundational services that power the entire platform — Design and operate the Registry, Catalog, Data Quality/Observability, and Delivery services that enable hundreds of data products across the organization
• Define the developer experience — Build contract-first APIs and libraries with bulletproof versioning and compatibility guarantees that make domain teams lives easier and safer
• Own production excellence — Instrument services with comprehensive observability (metrics, logs, traces) and define SLOs that youll actually meet, ensuring the platform our teams depend on stays rock-solid
• Multiply team velocity — Partner with domain teams to adopt data contracts, onboard to the catalog, and integrate quality frameworks—turning platform capabilities into accelerated feature delivery
• Shape engineering standards — Drive code quality through meaningful reviews, write documentation that developers actually want to read, and elevate team practices that scale
• Solve performance at scale — Profile and optimize systems handling multi-tenant workloads, balancing sub-second latency requirements with cost efficiency across 3,000+ clients
• Drive platform evolution — Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), champion harvested-platform patterns, and push the boundaries of what our infrastructure can enable
• Stay ahead of the curve — Evaluate emerging technologies in the data platform space and bring forward recommendations that give us competitive advantage
  
  

What You’ll Need

• B.E/B Tech in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Enterprise software engineer experience with 10+ years’ building scalable back-end services and applications.
• Deep design experience in building highly scalable systems/applications in the cloud.
• Strong cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) with IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• Expertise in building high scale distributed systems with technologies like Kafka.
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design practices and enterprise patterns.
• Expert level knowledge C#, .NetCore
• Full stack developer knowledge with focus on the front end with Angular or similar web frameworks.
• Design and development experience with microservices, RESTful APIs.
• Expertise in data modelling and working with databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Ability to collaborate across numerous teams, document ideas, strategies and effectively communicate across teams.
• Passion for working across teams to drive engineering vision and best practices
• Desired experience with Data Platform Engineering services, schema registry, metadata/catalog systems (e.g., OpenMetadata), and data lineage.
  
  

You’re driven to succeed and so are we. At Lytx, our mission is to protect a world in motion, and we do it by building technology and partnerships that help keep people safe on the road. The way we work is guided by our shared values: Deliver for the customer, Responsibility in every outcome, Innovate with purpose, Velocity with excellence, and Elevate each other.

If you’re looking for meaningful work, a team that challenges and supports you, and the chance to grow your career while making a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Together, we’re helping make roadways safer and saving lives!

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender, genetic information, uniformed service, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal or state law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email TA@lytx.com.  Lytx conducts background checks on applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment in accordance with applicable local, state, federal and regional laws. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment and will be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, federal and regional laws.

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