Senior Infra Engineer - Events Platform
Remote - Americas
The Identity & Events Platform team sits at the heart of how Shopify moves data. The Event Refinery sub-team is building the next-generation event processing platform that will replace Shopify's legacy eventing infrastructure, becoming the central hub through which all merchant, buyer, and third-party event data flows.
The systems this team builds power personalization, recommendations, advertising, internal and external analytics, partner data sharing, and automations. The team is now scaling from roughly 10 billion events per day toward hundreds of billions as Shopify migrates teams onto the new platform. That is the problem you would be joining to help solve.
What You'll Work On
Design, build, and operate high-throughput streaming pipelines that process behavioral event data at massive scale
Ensure compliance and correctness in how event data is enriched, routed, and made available to downstream consumers
Improve pipeline reliability and observability including latency, memory optimization, Kafka throughput, and operational health
Collaborate with downstream teams (i.e. personalization, analytics, advertising, etc) to evolve the platform to meet their data needs
Participate in on-call rotations and own the operational health of production systems
What We're Looking For
Requirements:
Proven experience building and operating high-throughput data processing systems in production at meaningful scale
Proficiency in Java or a similar JVM/statically-typed language (Kotlin, Scala, Go, Rust) — our streaming pipelines are written in Java and you should be comfortable working in it or ramping up quickly.
Hands-on experience with Apache Flink or a comparable stream processing framework (Dataflow, Spark Streaming)
Working knowledge of Apache Kafka including producing, consuming, tuning throughput, and understanding operational behavior under load
Operational mindset — you have been on-call, you think about latency and memory, and you know how to run a production system, not just write code for one
Kubernetes familiarity in a production context — running workloads and owning their reliability
Strong signals we look for:
Experience with behavioral, or event data pipelines rather than transactional or reporting-focused data
Observability work including metrics, alerting, tracing, and reducing noise in production systems
Latency optimization and compression work on streaming or storage systems
Complex pipeline work such as aggregations, rollups, and enrichment beyond simple data-in/data-out
Nice to have:
Interest in data privacy and compliance at the processing layer: how to correctly aggregate, route, and act on data given consent and governance signals
Experience at companies or platforms that treat behavioral data as a core product
What This Role Is Not
This is not a data engineering role in the analytics sense. If SQL is your primary tool, this probably is not the right fit. We are looking for engineers who build the infrastructure that makes data move, not the models or dashboards that sit on top of it.
At Shopify, we pride ourselves on moving quickly—not just in shipping, but in our hiring process as well. If you're ready to apply, please be prepared to interview with us within the week. Our goal is to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days. You will be expected to complete a live pair programming session, come prepared with your own IDE.
Engineering. It’s our DNA.
Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.
They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.
They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.
Infrastructure engineering
Infrastructure Engineers at Shopify build and maintain the systems that handle millions of requests per second and billions of dollars in transactions. At that scale, performance gains matter and weak assumptions surface quickly. Your systems power the experience for millions of entrepreneurs and buyers every minute of every day, including peak events like Black Friday.
Engineers at Shopify spend the majority of their time actually writing code to build and improve infrastructure. You’ll solve problems that don’t exist anywhere else, with challenges that push what’s possible. If that lights you up, come build with us.
Mastery-matched compensation.
~Mastery
At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.
Total Rewards
With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.
* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.
Room for the rest of your life.
Flexible work, remote by design
A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.
If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.
Your setup
Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.
Benefits
You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.
Family support
We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.
The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human. What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference. Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.
We’re looking for world-class crafters. Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field. Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.
You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment. Show us what you do best, and how you do it. Shopify’s bar is high, and code wins arguments around here. Let your skills do the talking.
Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude. Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.