Sr. Software Engineer; Distributed Systems

Immuta is the Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations provision secure, governed data access at the speed modern business demands. We automate access by policy and by request—eliminating tickets, reducing risk, and enabling both humans and AI systems to work with data safely and instantly.

Founded in 2015, Immuta is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies worldwide and operates as a hybrid workplace globally.

• Technology partners include Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Starburst.
• Immuta was recognized as the Snowflake Data Security Partner of the Year in June 2023.
• Immuta has been recognized by Forbes as a top American startup employer, by Inc. Magazine and Built In as one of the best workplaces, and by Fast Company as one of the top 50 most innovative companies.
• $267 million in total funding. Lead investors include Night Dragon, Snowflake, and Databricks, along with additional funding from Service Now, Citi Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ Growth, IAG, Intel Capital, March Capital, Okta Ventures, Step Stone, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Wipro Ventures.
• A hybrid workplace with offices in Boston, MA;
  Columbus, Ohio;
  College Park, Maryland.

At Immuta, we’re on a mission to make data secure, accessible, and trusted for every organization. Our Engineering Team builds the technologies that power this mission — enabling global enterprises to automate data access control, privacy enforcement, and policy management across modern cloud ecosystems.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Distributed Systems team
, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and evolving the backend systems that support Immuta’s data governance platform. You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to architect scalable solutions, guide technical direction, and mentor peers in best practices.

This is a hands‑on, highly impactful role for someone who enjoys balancing technical depth with product impact. You’ll help improve performance, reliability, and usability while contributing to a strong engineering culture rooted in innovation and continuous learning.

• Architect and Build Scalable Systems: Design and develop new backend pipelines and workflows that deliver high reliability and performance.
• Improve Performance at Scale: Identify bottlenecks, tune Postgres queries, and optimize system performance as data volumes grow.
• Mentor and Guide: Provide technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Influence Technical Direction: Improve engineering processes through automation, testing, and continuous delivery.

• Design, build, and deliver backend services and distributed workflows that power Immuta’s core platform.
• Build and operate services that integrate with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst, and Redshift.
• Implement and maintain Type Script-based microservices, RESTful APIs, and Temporal workflows.
• Own Postgres performance and reliability, including query authoring, tuning (configuration of memory and buffers, WAL tuning, and table design), benchmarking, and schema design.
• Deploy and operate microservices in Kubernetes-based environments, using tools like Skaffold and Flux to support modern CI/CD workflows, with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Participation in code reviews, design discussions, and system architecture planning.

• Experience: 5–8 years of software engineering experience in SaaS, cloud, or data‑intensive environments;
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Languages & Frameworks: Strong proficiency in Type Script and Node.js, with experience building backend services and data‑driven applications.
• Architecture Expertise: Hands‑on experience designing and operating microservice and distributed systems, including asynchronous or long‑running workflows (e.g., Temporal or similar systems) and API design.
• Data & Cloud Platforms: Experience working with Postgres, including writing and tuning SQL for performance, and deploying services using…