Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform - Seattle
Qualtrics · Seattle, Washington, United States
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**Staff Software Engineer, Analytics Platform — Seattle** **About Qualtrics** 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. We’re the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category, serving 18K+ clients globally. When you join a team, you’ll be part of a nimble group empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast—solving complex problems together through iteration and collaboration. Growth opportunities are actively supported, and our mission is to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. --- ## **Why We Have This Role** The **Analytics Platform** supports all Qualtrics Experience Management products. Our services ingest, store, process, and perform analytics on experience data at scale. We design systems for **high availability, high throughput, data consistency, and security**—enabling customer, employee, brand, and product teams to build data-driven workflows and tools. ## **How You’ll Find Success** - We aim to be the best engineering organization within Qualtrics—supporting specialization and personal growth. - Engineers at every level participate in design and architecture, requirements gathering, full-stack development and delivery, operations, quality, and benchmarking/optimization. - We welcome people who want to envision the future and anticipate customer needs that don’t exist yet. - Senior contributors should identify hidden problems, show strong intellectual/engineering curiosity, and continuously challenge whether there’s a better way. - Senior engineers may drive the team’s North Star and vision—impact grows quickly on the analytics platform. ## **How You’ll Grow** - You’ll work on high-impact services with high scale and reliability requirements. - You’ll build a broader understanding of system interactions (e.g., caching, routing, queue management, event-driven systems). ## **Things You’ll Do** - Develop and operate SaaS software: design, build, distribute, scale, and run services. - Build scalable, robust, highly available, data-intensive microservices. - Implement new features and optimize existing ones to deliver customer value. - Partner with UX, TechOps, and Product to achieve great product designs. - Participate in daily stand-ups, collaborate with peers, prioritize features, support on-call rotation, and consistently deliver value. ## **What We’re Looking For On Your Resume** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) and demonstrated expertise in algorithms, data structures, and data modeling, plus the ability to estimate and deliver coding objectives. - Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies (e.g., **Elasticsearch, SQL, Starrocks, Spark, Trino**). - Experience using advanced tools in distributed computing systems 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 and operational skills. - **8+ years** of meaningful engineering experience. ## **What You Should Know About This Team** - Collaboration is essential—expect to work with other teams and projects regularly. - The scale of the problems means your impact will scale too (performance, cost, reliability). - Scaling needs create frequent opportunities to learn new and e
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