Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Conviva helps the world's top brands to identify and act on growth opportunities across mobile and web apps, video streaming services, and Agentic AI experiences. Our platform delivers real-time performance analytics to transform every customer interaction into actionable insight, connecting experience, engagement, and technical performance to business outcomes. By analyzing client-side session data from all users as it happens, Conviva reveals not just what happened, but how long it lasted and why it mattered—surfacing behavioral and experience patterns that give teams the context to retain more customers, resolve issues faster, and grow revenue.
As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end-user experience for our customers. We are seeking a
Staff Engineer
to join the Platform and TLB Team as an Individual Contributor.

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real-time. Engineer the next-generation operational data platform that turns event streams into actionable insights with high efficiency, in real-time and at internet scale. Build a horizontally and vertically scalable system that ingests trillions of events per day within sub-second latencies and enables experience-centric observability that connects user experience with system performance.. Utilise the latest and greatest big data technologies to build solutions for use cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have a big business impact for years. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best software development tools and processes.

What Success Will Look Like

• Be able to build features, design, documentation, fix bugs and own end-to-end engineering deliverables
• Design, build and maintain TQL (Time Series Query language) – DSL powering Conviva's metric development capability.
• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, and time-series analytics platform at the heart of Conviva's products.
• Contribute to enhance the CI/CD capabilities/practices to deploy to Kubernetes-based large backend clusters for testing and releases.
• Own the entire software lifecycle including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements etc.
• Lead engineers to develop a feature or parts of the product.
• Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate and ship per business priority

Who You Are & What You've Done

• 8+ years of work experience in software development of data processing and distribution systems-based
• Excellent programming and debugging skills. Proficient in writing code in Python/Java/Scala/C that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant
• Hands-on with functional programming, event-sourced architectures, CQRS and DDD (domain-driven design)
• Excellent knowledge of basic computer science fundamentals like data structures, compilers, databases and operating system principles. Knowledge of advanced data structures and distributed databases will be a plus.
• Knowledge of streaming/big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS, cloud native architectures
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning etc.
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure.
• Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity.

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at

. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets