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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nectar Social
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Pulumi, Machine Learning Operations, Vertica, Stream Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2efe62c31e58f6c6

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
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Strong experience designing and scaling distributed systems, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms
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Proven ability to architect systems and drive major technical decisions
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Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering direction
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Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy
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Strong product intuition and ability to collaborate closely with product and design teams
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Interest in AI-native engineering workflows and how AI is transforming software development

Bonus Points

 * Startup experience building early-stage or rapidly scaling products
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Experience working with large-scale data pipelines or real-time analytics systems
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Familiarity with modern infrastructure and developer tooling such as AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
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Experience integrating AI or machine learning systems into production platforms

## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and scale the core systems that power Nectar's platform. You'll work on the infrastructure that ingests, processes, and analyzes large volumes of social data while enabling AI agents to operate on that data in real time.

This role combines deep technical execution with architectural leadership. You'll help define how our systems evolve as we scale customers, data volume, and product capabilities.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Architect and scale the core systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, and LinkedIn
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Design data pipelines that power AI agents and real-time analytics used by our customers
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Lead major technical decisions across the platform, writing design docs and establishing scalable architecture patterns
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Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our data and AI infrastructure as the platform scales
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Mentor engineers and review system designs and code to help raise the engineering bar across the team
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Work closely with product and engineering leadership to solve complex technical problems and deliver impactful systems


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