Senior Software Engineer building Velora’s AI - native CRM, data and integrations platform. Delivering secure full - stack features for nonprofit fundraising, donor management and reporting.
About the role
- Staff Software Engineer improving Nova, Amplitude’s OLAP engine powering its AI analytics platform. Optimizing query infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability, and cloud efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Own core components across query execution, columnar storage, and distributed compute
- Design elastic query infrastructure for AI agents as first-class clients, targeting 10× query throughput with predictable performance and lower cost per query
- Solve performance problems across engine internals and cloud infrastructure, including JVM and memory optimization and distributed execution
- Own production reliability through on-call, incident investigation, and architectural improvements
- Set technical direction for major initiatives and lead them from proposal through production with clear milestones and measurable results
- Decide what to build, what to adopt, and how to evolve Nova for its next order of magnitude in scale
- Work across engineering and product to set priorities and resolve trade-offs between capabilities, complexity, and cost
- Help senior engineers take on larger technical problems through design reviews, debugging, and shared ownership
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with depth in distributed data systems
- Hands-on experience building or extending analytical or OLAP systems, including query engines, columnar storage, large-scale data processing or streaming frameworks, or equivalent
- Track record of leading multi-month, cross-team technical projects from design through production, including significant cost or performance wins on cloud infrastructure
- Strong computer science fundamentals: distributed systems (partitioning, replication, consistency, failover), data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated technical influence beyond the immediate team: leading design discussions, driving cross-team alignment, and mentoring engineers
- Proficiency in Java, C++ or Python
- Experience with query or OLAP systems such as Druid, ClickHouse, Presto/Trino, Spark, BigQuery or Snowflake
- Experience with SQL planning and optimization, or building SQL layers over heterogeneous storage
- Familiarity with open table and columnar formats including Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow and ORC, and warehouse-native architectures
- Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation platforms, event-driven data systems, or serving data to LLM and agent workloads
Benefits
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly commuter transit/parking stipend
- Quarterly learning and development stipend
- New hire home office equipment stipend
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support
- Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits, including no-cost employee access to Modern Health coaching and therapy sessions
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mentorship programs
- Management training
- Wellness initiatives
- Charitable giving grant
- Paid volunteer time off
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