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Senior Software Engineer II - Streaming and Durability

Compass · Manhattan, New York, United States

Posted about 2 months ago · $176,000-$196,100

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
53 days
Compass's roles stay open a median of 54 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
84% of Compass's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Compass
high
148 stale, 7 reposted of 228 open
Hiring momentum
349 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-26

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Compass's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Compass.

About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Streaming & Durability team at Compass, you will be responsible for designing and operating the foundational data layer that supports the company's core products. Your role will involve building multi-tenant data isolation systems, managing production database upgrades, and developing Kafka streaming infrastructure. You will work closely with product and platform teams to ensure database readiness and resolve production incidents, all while maintaining high standards of performance and reliability.

Our read on this posting4.2out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Compass as an employer.

What you need

  • 7+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems at production scale in AWS
  • Depth in at least one major managed database (PostgreSQL or similar)
  • Experience operating Kafka/MSK at scale
  • Experience building shared tooling (SDKs, client libraries, platform APIs)
  • Ability to think in trade-offs and articulate decisions
  • Proficiency in Go (or ability to ramp quickly)

Nice to have

  • Experience with multi-tenant isolation problems such as key prefixing, row-level security, and RBAC/ACL models
  • Experience building or contributing to observability platforms for database and cache monitoring

What you get

  • Participation in incentive programs (cash, equity, or commissions)
  • Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave
  • Medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
  • Commuter program

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options
  • High responsibility for production systems with significant impact on trust and performance
  • Complexity of working with multi-tenant data isolation and database upgrades

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Listed by Compass on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-26. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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