Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Introduction to Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By aligning their sales and marketing teams around a combination of their data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what we call Account Intelligence — so they can identify, engage, and focus their time and money on the accounts most likely to buy. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK, and allow employees to work remotely. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area including, “Best Workplaces for Millennials” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

About the Role:

In this role, you will help build the next-generation unified data platform that will combine datasets from across the Demandbase ecosystem. Using the latest open source tools, you'll solve complex data warehousing problems to ensure quality, discoverability and accessibility of data. You'll build batch and streaming data pipelines for ingestion, normalization and analysis; in addition, you'll develop standard design and access patterns that will allow these pipelines to stay flexible and grow over time as the needs of the business change. You'll be a leader in the unification of data from our multiple products as we come together as one Demandbase platform.

The compensation range for this role is: $160,000 - $220,000 

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build the next generation of Demandbase’s Unified Data Platform through a combination of data pipelines, APIs, internal tools and 3rd party/open source tooling
• Work across the data stack to build and productionalize data pipelines for massive amounts of data
• Integrate 3rd party and open source tools into our data platform to build out various aspects of our data platform
• Build DAGs in Airflow for orchestration and monitoring of data pipelines

What we’re looking for:

• Four-year degree in Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience
• Progressive experience in all of the following areas:
• Understanding of data strategies, articulate data analysis & data model design and evolve data products according to business requirements.
• Designing and building low latency analytics APIs at scale
• At least one JVM language (Java, Scala, Kotlin, etc.)
• The Spark Ecosystem (YARN, Executors, Livy, etc)
• Data orchestration frameworks, particularly Airflow or similar
• Columnar data stores, particularly Parquet and StarRocks
• Strong SDLC principles (CI/CD, Unit Testing, git, etc)
• General understanding of AWS EMR, EC2, S3

Desired:

• Experience with 
• “Lakehouse” technologies, particularly Iceberg or similar (DeltaLake, Hudi, etc)
• Large scale data streaming, particularly Kafka or similar technologies (Pulsar, Kinesis, etc)
• Terraform for AWS
• Astronomer
• Open Source contribution experience

Benefits:

BenefitsWe offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and financial security. Our employees enjoy up to 100% paid premiums for Medical and Vision coverage, ensuring access to top-tier care for you and your loved ones. In addition, we provide a range of mental wellness resources, including access to Modern Health, to help support your emotional well-being. We believe in a healthy work-life harmony, which is why we offer a flexible PTO policy, 15 paid holidays in 2025—including a three-day break around July 4th and a full week off for Thanksgiving—and No Internal Meetings Fridays to give you uninterrupted time to focus on what matters most. For your financial future, we offer a competitive 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and other valuable benefits to ensure your financial peace of mind.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Demandbase

At Demandbase, we believe in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national origin, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.

We recognize that not all candidates will have every skill or qualification listed in this job description. If you feel you have the level of experience to be successful in the role, we encourage you to apply!

We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion require ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to make our workplace a safe and equitable space for all. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.