Staff Backend Engineer

Coatue Management L.L.C. is a leading investment management firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to drive innovation and growth. Our team of experts is dedicated to identifying and capitalizing on emerging trends and opportunities in the market.

The discovery team at Coatue Management L.L.C. is responsible for developing and maintaining the firm's data infrastructure, including our knowledge graph and time series data systems. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineer to join our team and help us unlock the full potential of our data assets.

We are looking for a talented engineer to join our team and take on the challenge of scaling our knowledge graph infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of data points. The successful candidate will have a strong background in building highly performant, observable, and scalable systems, as well as extensive experience in search technologies and streaming systems.

1. Derive deeper insights from our data by scaling our current knowledge graph infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of data points.
2. Deeply understand how our insight layer is connected to the rest of our application layer and ensure the needs of our customers and teams are met by focusing on performance, observability, and customer demand.
3. Evaluate how we store time series data and help us scale it 10x the current throughput in an iterative manner.
4. Leverage ML infrastructure and services to continually improve our taxonomy and derive relevant signals from the underlying data.

1. 5+ years of building highly performant, highly observable, and highly scalable systems.
2. Extensive experience in search systems (search, recommendations, and knowledge graphs). Passionate about making discovery more intuitive and user-friendly.
3. Experience with search technologies (Lucene, Elastic Search, Solr, etc).
4. Experience with streaming technologies (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
5. Experience with various data storage solutions (SQL, NoSQL / key-value stores).

1. 2+ years of experience in an early-stage startup.
2. 3+ years of experience in leading teams either as a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager.
3. Proven track record migrating systems in a changing environment that allows for little to no downtime to meet increasing demand.
4. Obsessed about your craft and share your knowledge (tech talks, articles, open source, etc).
5. Experience in working in Python/strongly typed languages.

$170K - $250K Salary + Equity (flexible depending on the level)

• Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
• 401k matching
• Free lunch in office
• Monthly team dinner (we have a lot of foodies) for each office
• Commuter benefits
• Quarterly company-wide offsites. Locations so far: Barcelona, Puerto Vallarta, Austin, & Salt Lake City
• Offices in NYC, SF, & LA