Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform - Seattle

About the Position

Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform - Seattle

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform-we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention-but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities-ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

Responsibilities

• Focus on the development of SaaS Software and design, build, distribute, scale and operate these services.
• Develop scalable, robust, and highly available data intensive micro services.
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to provide customer value.
• Partner with UX, TechOps, Product, to achieve the best product designs.
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, serve on an on-call rotation, and consistently deliver value to customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Expertise in algorithmic execution, data structures, and data modeling.
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies such as Elasticsearch, SQL, Starrocks, Spark, Trino.
• Experience in employing advanced tools within a distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing, ingestion, and analytics.
• Strong mathematical and/or computational background.
• Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and operational skills.
• 8+ years of meaningful engineering experience.

We Offer

• Fun and collaborative office environment with in-office amenities, food, drinks, outdoor space, and of course, pinball!
• Quarterly team offsites, giving developers a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
• Education budget you can flexibly spend on topics that interest you.
• QED (Qualtrics Engineer Development) Program encourages all engineers to invest in themselves up to 10% of their time each quarter to advance their careers.

About the Company

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Salary

Washington State Base Annual Pay Transparency Range: $176,500-$214,000 USD

Hybrid Work Model

Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid