Software Engineer, Platform & Data Infrastructure

3 - 6 years

12 - 16 Lacs

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Job Description

A talented software engineer excited to work on the backbone of the Galileo platform. We are looking for someone who has built large-scale real-time infrastructure, services, and APIs that scale to millions of queries. Addressed challenges that come with systems of scale. Worked on and optimized high throughput traffic on SQL and NoSQL data stores, time-series databases and/or Object stores.

You Have

  • Experience with large scale distributed systems
  • Experience with NoSQL databases and time-series databases
  • Worked on real-time high throughput caching systems
  • Excellent python programming skills
  • Worked with raw-data lookup indexes such as Lucene and/or similar frameworks
  • Experience with runtime orchestration and pub-sub frameworks like RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka
  • Built low-latency data lookup APIs
  • Done extensive performance optimizations
  • Built internal tooling foundations for performance testing, load testing and benchmarking

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with

    time-series or columnar databases

    (e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, DuckDB)
  • Familiarity with

    distributed query engines or streaming frameworks

    (Presto, Trino, Flink, Spark Streaming)
  • Hands-on with

    container orchestration and scaling systems

    (Kubernetes, EKS)
  • Experience building

    observability and performance tooling

    (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, flame graphs)

What will this role work on/get to do

Youll be responsible for the backbone that powers Galileo s platform. This role is all about solving hard systems problems at scale and making our infrastructure resilient, fast, and reliable.

In this role, you will:

  • Build and scale core infrastructure design and optimize distributed systems and APIs that handle millions of real-time queries with low latency and high reliability.
  • Develop data-intensive systems work across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and object stores, ensuring data pipelines and lookups are optimized for throughput and efficiency.
  • Optimize performance at scale profile and tune systems for latency, throughput, and cost, ensuring the platform can grow with customer demand.
  • Work on real-time serving systems design high-throughput caching layers and data lookup services to enable fast, reliable access to large-scale datasets.
  • Build and extend pub-sub and orchestration frameworks leverage and improve systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Celery to coordinate workloads and streaming data pipelines.
  • Design internal developer tooling create load testing, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools that help us and our customers understand and trust the system.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally partner with product, research, and application engineering teams to ensure the platform can support new capabilities, models, and workloads.

Why Galileo

  • Join a seasoned founding team that has previously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
  • We obsess over our team s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity
  • We invest in our team s development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers towards that end,

we offer:

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental Leave (birthing non-birthing) 100% pay for 8 weeks
  • Pre-IPO Stock Options
  • Commuter Benefits (pre-tax + company sponsored)
  • Mental Physical we'llness Stipend
  • Daily Meals Stipend
  • HQ in Burlingame + hub in NYC + hub in Bangalore
  • Build the company alongside the Founders

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