Software Engineer - Data Production

Software Engineer (Data Production Team)

San Francisco, New York, Or Kansas City

Replica is a privacy-centric urban data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. With better data, human-context, and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions.

Our platform models travel behavior over time to show how people across the country live, move, and work. This data is used by planners, scientists, analysts, and policymakers who are working to make our cities more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We contextualize hard choices so that our clients understand the trade-offs surrounding their decisions. Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica enables cities and businesses to make more informed, people-centered decisions.

We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 when we secured series A funding from venture firms such as Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Our series B round was led by Founders Fund in 2021. Today, we are a team of 38 employees both working remotely and from our offices in San Francisco, New York, and Kansas City. 

Our data is used to make decisions affecting the physical places where we work, study, and live. These places are complex and deeply human. This responsibility necessitates providing transparency, pursuing equity, and preserving privacy. We are committed to bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion. We value our differences and we encourage all to apply. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

The Team

The Data Production team is made up of urbanist-minded engineers who are passionate about evolving our product to address critical economic, equity, and sustainability challenges. The team designs, implements and maintains the building blocks and reusable components that power Replica’s data production and simulation pipelines. Most of the team is based in the Bay Area and New York, but we work with cross-functional teams in Kansas City, and serve customers across North America.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the data infrastructure and services that are the foundation of Replica’s software.
• Design and build the ingestion, processing and delivery framework to power upcoming real-time traffic products.
• Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Data Management & Procurement teams to implement and deploy data products at nationwide scale. Products include Trends (a weekly release of economic and mobility data), Places (a seasonal, high-fidelity mobility simulation), Scenario (an on-demand mobility simulation and forecasting tool), and a variety of tailored applications.
• Participate in on-call rotation; investigate and resolve production problems as they arise.
• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems anywhere on the stack.
• Observe workflow patterns and develop tools to automate manual processes and minimize toil.
• Drive engineering best practices to enable a robust production environment and maintain an effective development velocity.
• Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure.
• Technologies: Python, Dask, Prefect, Java, Kubernetes, Helm, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years experience with infrastructure design and implementation.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex systems.
• Composed urgency in stressful situations is critical.
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, containerized workloads, and real-time data processing.
• Familiarity with big data frameworks (Hadoop, BigQuery, Dask, Spark, Kafka, etc.).

What We Value

• We work in the service of others.
• We understand that talent + diversity + curiosity + relentlessness wins.
• We believe walking > talking.
• We operate with thoughtful urgency.
• We communicate openly and directly.
• We build products people use.

Benefits

• Our people! We work collaboratively as a team and are excited to contribute to city planning. 
• Competitive salary based on experience and potential for impact.
• Equity at an early stage startup.
• Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and HSA options. 
• 401k account + employer contribution.
• Offices in San Francisco, New York, & Kansas City.
• Flexible PTO.

Compensation

• Replica is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
• The salary range for this position is $178,000 to $195,800. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to relevant qualifications, depth of experience, skill set, certifications, training, education, and specific work location. The compensation packages may be adjusted based on the candidate’s work location, due to differences in the cost of living for the given location. Our position titles may also span multiple career levels.
• The total compensation package for this position additionally includes equity stock options, employee benefit package, 401k with 3% safe harbor employer contribution, unlimited PTO, and may also include other applicable incentive compensation and/or bonuses. For more information, visit https://replicahq.com/careers/

Replica is an Equal Opportunity Employer

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
• Ability to operate at both a strategic/conceptual level and at a detailed, operational level metrics driven; highly disciplined
• Must have strong interpersonal skills, maturity and good judgment and be capable of communicating with a diverse range of individuals
• A hands-on, action-oriented approach that fits well with the entrepreneurial, fast-paced culture
• Engaging leadership style that builds and sustains credibility with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders
• Broad functional experience in areas of strategic planning and marketing, sales and market development and planning

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above, but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.