Senior Staff Software Engineer – Data Platform

🕒 July 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $255.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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WEX

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1983

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 $310M Post-IPO Debt on 2020-06

Healthcare • Logistics • Travel

WEX is a global commerce platform specializing in various business solutions to address operational challenges. They provide services in managing and mobilizing fleets with their fuel card systems, offering comprehensive fleet management and analytics. Additionally, they focus on business payments solutions that streamline processes across industries, enhancing efficiency and security. WEX is also involved in employee benefits administration, helping organizations effectively manage health and reimbursement accounts. Their diverse range of services caters to numerous sectors, emphasizing innovation, sustainability, and effective solutions for business growth.

📋 Description

• Define the 3–5 year technical roadmap for the Data Lakehouse • Determine how storage, compute, and metadata layers interact, including Apache Iceberg, Snowflake Horizon, or Databricks Unity Catalog • Build internal SDKs, CLI tools, and automated orchestration frameworks • Abstract cloud complexity through Control Planes and Custom Operators • Prototype and benchmark emerging technologies, including specialized Spark extensions • Architect compliance-by-design systems across petabyte-scale environments • Automate data lineage, PII masking, and fine-grained access control • Implement streaming support for Open Telemetry data from AI Agents into the Data Lake • Drive development of advanced AI evaluation metrics and reporting • Set standards for code quality and system design across the company • Lead Cross-Functional Architecture Reviews • Serve as the final escalation point for complex system outages and performance bottlenecks • Foster an Engineering Community and influence hiring standards and professional development paths

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years in software engineering and distributed systems • At least 4 years in a principal or staff-level capacity leading platform-scale initiatives • Strong fundamentals in software engineering, system architecture, scalable production applications, algorithms, data structures, and system design • Experience in the Java/J2EE ecosystem, including Spring Boot and microservices • Experience with Python • Ability to write clean, testable, and high-performance code • Experience building platforms, framework engines, and APIs that power data movement • Deep internal knowledge of Apache Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake, including metadata management, manifest files, and compaction strategies • Experience contributing to or deeply customizing open-source data projects such as Spark or dbt • Extensive experience designing and building high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines and orchestration frameworks • Experience with cloud architecture and services, including AWS (S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda) and Azure • Deep understanding of CI/CD automation, modern development tools, Git Actions, Terraform, and frameworks • Experience leveraging AI Code Gen platforms in the software development lifecycle to automate code generation, reviews, unit tests, and root-cause analysis • Ability to architect infrastructure supporting AI Agent development through vector database integration • Proven track record of leading by influence and driving adoption of new technologies across multiple autonomous teams • Ability to communicate complex architectural trade-offs to C-suite executives and junior engineers alike • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (Distributed Systems focus) preferred, or equivalent deep industry experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Health savings account • Flexible spending accounts • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles • Comprehensive and market competitive benefits designed to support personal and professional well-being