Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Catena Clearing is building the data infrastructure layer for freight logistics. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to take deep ownership of their platform, focusing on building and extending core services, ensuring data security, and mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the Ingestion Platform: you'll own the system that pulls in data from external providers and turns it into clean, normalized data. Our integrations team uses it to connect each new provider, so the platform you build directly determines how quickly and reliably we can onboard them
- Build Customer-Facing APIs: you'll design and maintain the FastAPI services that deliver our data to customers, focusing on performance, clean contracts, and reliability. This also includes the outbound webhook delivery service that pushes events and updates to customers in real-time
- Design Platform Security: you'll help design and maintain how we secure data and access across these services, treating security as a core part of the engineering work rather than an afterthought
- Treat Reliability as the Product: API uptime and our schemas and contracts are externalities our customers plan around. You'll own the patterns that hold the line: degraded-mode handling, dead-letter-queue alerting and replay, correlation across services, and disaster recovery
- Multiply the Team: you'll author patterns, shared libraries, runbooks, and docs the team will adopt, sit on the architectural review function, and partner with Product and other teams on the contracts that cross between them
- Build for an AI-Native Platform: our data increasingly serves AI agents acting on behalf of customers, not just human integrators. You'll architect AI-touched surfaces for production reliability (evaluation, observability, rollback, cost controls), make build-vs-buy calls on AI capabilities, and design APIs and schemas that work well for AI consumers
- Develop the Engineers Around You: you'll make other engineers measurably more effective through design review, pairing, and mentorship, help calibrate the technical bar across teams, and sell Catena to candidates at the senior end
Skills
- Roughly 8+ years building production systems, with meaningful time owning a service or area end to end
- Have expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL and a deep backend or data engineering background
- Have built and operated event-driven, service-oriented architectures in production and know where they break
- Are fluent with infrastructure as code (ideally CDK) and comfortable with serverless, cloud-native AWS from real operational experience
- Have a track record of architectural ownership within an area and can speak to decisions you've made that improved performance, reliability, and/or maintainability
- Have real AI fluency, both as an engineering tool and in what you build: daily use with verification discipline, plus eval, observability, and reliability patterns for the AI-touched surfaces you own
- Enjoys and has a track record of developing and mentoring engineers
- Can balance build vs. buy pragmatically and make sound calls when the spec isn't fully written yet
- Proven success working in a fast-paced startup environment and are comfortable with high autonomy and ambiguity
- Experience with logistics, supply chain, or telematics data is a genuine plus but curiosity about the domain matters more than prior exposure
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Full benefits
- 401k match
- Remote-first
- Optional travel for team offsites and occasional on-sites
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