About this role
Primer has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer, Data & Inference in San Francisco, United States, and the role is on-site. The role sits in Data Science & AI, which shapes the kind of work involved. Day-to-day, you would be working out of the San Francisco office. The employer is looking for senior experience, which sets the bar for who should apply. The employer's description below has the full detail on how to apply.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by Primer.
Primer is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Data & Inference team in San Francisco.
The role owns the inference layer end to end, from data ingestion through to model serving.
You will design and run batch and streaming pipelines that keep product data fresh and reliable.
Work spans a modern stack including React and Node on the front end, Python services, Prefect orchestration, Iceberg, ClickHouse and dbt.
The team is about twenty people, working in person from the Embarcadero office in the Bay Area.
You will shape how data flows through the product and how models are evaluated and shipped.
Candidates need six or more years building and scaling production data systems.
Strong SQL and Python skills are required, with Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Dagster or Prefect experience valued.
Applications go by email with a LinkedIn profile, CV and GitHub link.