Senior Software Engineer, Core Services (Ingestion)
**About the company:**
Treasure Data
Minato-ku, Tokyo
Treasure Data is the only enterprise Customer Data Platform that harmonizes an organization’s data, insights, and engagement technology stacks to drive relevant, real-time customer experiences throughout the entire customer journey.
**Responsibilities:**
Design, build, and operate large-scale backend services for real-time and near-real-time data ingestion
Own major components or services end-to-end, from design through production operations
Improve system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency under high and unpredictable traffic
Collaborate with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to support customer onboarding and growth
Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of production issues and incident follow-ups
Use metrics, monitoring, and data to guide engineering decisions
Contribute clean, well-tested code and actively participate in design and code reviews
Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar of the team through example
Requirements
Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent practical experience)
Have built and maintained backend or distributed systems at scale
Understand reliability, availability, and failure modes in production environments
Are comfortable owning services with real customer and business impact
Write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code
Communicate effectively in a distributed, global team
Are comfortable working primarily with Kotlin and Java , and open to learning new tools and technologies
Have experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
Business-level English proficiency
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
Experience with streaming or real-time data systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark)
Experience scaling systems by 3–5× or more
Familiarity with infrastructure as code, observability, or CI/CD
Open-source contributions
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Meet Treasure Data's Developers
Scaling ML Algorithms for Enterprise
with David Landup
David discusses how he enjoys switching hats between ML and software, and why he finds Treasure Data’s “extensive ecosystem” so much fun.
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome at Treasure Data
with Tyler Welsh
Tyler is a software engineer at Treasure Data working on their Data Clean Room product. He talks about how Treasure Data supports their team’s learning and growth, and how they invest in the quality and performance of their services.
Read their story...
**Requirements:**
Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent practical experience)
Have built and maintained backend or distributed systems at scale
Understand reliability, availability, and failure modes in production environments
Are comfortable owning services with real customer and business impact
Write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code
Communicate effectively in a distributed, global team
Are comfortable working primarily with Kotlin and Java , and open to learning new tools and technologies
Have experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
Business-level English proficiency
**Nice to have:**
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
Experience with streaming or real-time data systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark)
Experience scaling systems by 3–5× or more
Familiarity with infrastructure as code, observability, or CI/CD
Open-source contributions
APPLY FOR THIS POSITION
DO YOU NEED MORE INFO?
ASK A QUESTION
Meet Treasure Data's Developers
Scaling ML Algorithms for Enterprise
with David Landup
David discusses how he enjoys switching hats between ML and software, and why he finds Treasure Data’s “extensive ecosystem” so much fun.
Read their story...
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome at Treasure Data
with Tyler Welsh
Tyler is a software engineer at Treasure Data working on their Data Clean Room product. He talks about how Treasure Data supports their team’s learning and growth, and how they invest in the quality and performance of their services.
Read their story...