Senior Software Developer - Cloud Platform

About the role

Have you heard of BlueCat? We’re one of those hidden gems that’s been disrupting the market as a key player in the rapidly growing space of Intelligent Network Operations. Organizations require a new model of network operations that links foundational core services with a deep, predictive understanding of network health and performance to improve change readiness. BlueCat’s Intelligent NetOps is a first-to-market combination of systems of understanding and change. BlueCat enables teams to enhance agility and mitigate risks from high rates of change with a unified management lifecycle, from provisioning to proactive troubleshooting and remediation.

At BlueCat, we take immense pride in our award-winning culture, an integral part of our identity. We are proud recipients of several prestigious accolades, including the "Great Place to Work" certification. By becoming a part of our team, you not only join a company at the forefront of technology but also become an integral member of Canada's top workplaces in various categories, including Technology, Today's Youth and Women, and Mental Health and Inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

- Build and operate our data lake on a ClickHouse-centered architecture, including ingestion pipelines, data modeling, partitioning, and replication.

- Develop and maintain data pipelines and event-driven services that move messages and data across the platform.

- Implement data analytics jobs and APIs that expose data to product and application teams.

- Partner with Application teams to understand requirements and recommend sound approaches to data design and access patterns.

- Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency of data services. This includes measurable gains in latency, throughput, and availability.

- Implement data protection, security, and privacy controls for data processed from the edge to the core.

- Build with modern, asynchronous Python and Golang, and use other languages where they fit.

- Write and maintain documentation, including designs, evaluation plans, test results, and technical manuals.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building data platforms or data-intensive distributed systems.

- Hands-on experience with ClickHouse or a comparable OLAP database or query engine (DuckDB, Druid, Pinot, Trino, or similar). This includes data modeling, ingestion, and query performance tuning.

- Experience with data lake architectures and open file and table formats such as Parquet and Apache Iceberg (Delta Lake is a plus), on object storage.

- Strong production experience with Python (including async programming) and/or Golang.

- Experience with data processing and analytics tools such as Pandas, Polars, DuckDB, or equivalents (Dask, Ray, Prefect are a plus).

- Experience building data pipelines on messaging and streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, or similar).