Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer in Data Platform Services team, you'll architect and lead the evolution of metadata services at the heart of our analytics platform: data contracts, the Data Product Catalog, data quality and observability frameworks, and data delivery/subscription systems. Analytics drives everything at Lytx—from collision prevention to driver coaching across 700,000 vehicles worldwide. You'll build the platform capabilities that enable domain teams to confidently deliver analytics-powered safety features at multi-tenant scale with low-latency delivery and enterprise-grade governance. If you want to build the platform that makes analytics-driven safety possible at scale, this role is for you.

You’ll Get To:

• Architect foundational services that power the entire platform — Design and operate the Registry, Catalog, Data Quality/Observability, and Delivery services that enable hundreds of data products across the organization
• Define the developer experience — Build contract-first APIs and libraries with bulletproof versioning and compatibility guarantees that make domain teams' lives easier and safer
• Own production excellence — Instrument services with comprehensive observability (metrics, logs, traces) and define SLOs that you'll actually meet, ensuring the platform our teams depend on stays rock-solid
• Multiply team velocity — Partner with domain teams to adopt data contracts, onboard to the catalog, and integrate quality frameworks—turning platform capabilities into accelerated feature delivery
• Shape engineering standards — Drive code quality through meaningful reviews, write documentation that developers actually want to read, and elevate team practices that scale
• Solve performance at scale — Profile and optimize systems handling multi-tenant workloads, balancing sub-second latency requirements with cost efficiency across 3,000+ clients
• Drive platform evolution — Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), champion harvested-platform patterns, and push the boundaries of what our infrastructure can enable
• Stay ahead of the curve — Evaluate emerging technologies in the data platform space and bring forward recommendations that give us competitive advantage

What You’ll Need:

• B.E/B Tech in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Enterprise software engineer experience with 10+ years’ building scalable back-end services and applications.
• Deep design experience in building highly scalable systems/applications in the cloud.
• Strong cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) with IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• Expertise in building high scale distributed systems with technologies like Kafka.
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented design practices and enterprise patterns.
• Expert level knowledge C#, .NetCore
• Full stack developer knowledge with focus on the front end with Angular or similar web frameworks.
• Design and development experience with microservices, RESTful APIs.
• Expertise in data modelling and working with databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB.

• Ability to collaborate across numerous teams, document ideas, strategies and effectively communicate across teams.

• Passion for working across teams to drive engineering vision and best practices

• Desired experience with Data Platform Engineering services, schema registry, metadata/catalog systems (e.g., OpenMetadata), and data lineage.

Innovation Lives Here

You go all in no matter what you do, and so do we. At Lytx, we’re powered by cutting-edge technology and Happy People. You want your work to make a positive impact in the world, and that’s what we do. Join our diverse team of hungry, humble and capable people united to make a difference.

Together, we help save lives on our roadways.

Find out how good it feels to be a part of an inclusive, collaborative team. We’re committed to delivering an environment where everyone feels valued, included and supported to do their best work and share their voices.

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. We’re committed to attracting, retaining and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. EOE/M/F/Disabled/Vet.