Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Streaming Compute
Remote - Americas
About the role
The Streaming Compute team owns the platform that powers large-scale data processing at Shopify with Apache Flink. We provide the infrastructure and tooling that lets teams across the company build, deploy, and operate streaming and batch data pipelines reliably and efficiently. Our platform powers business critical use cases, such as recommendations, catalog, as well as analytics workloads.
Our work spans the end to end ecosystem: making pipeline development fast and self-serve, improving performance and stability of the underlying compute engine, and keeping the platform cost-efficient as it scales. In this role, you'll work on distributed systems and developer experience, making powerful data processing simple and dependable for every engineer at Shopify.
This role combines development and operations. You'll build and run the systems you work on; lead complex features to production, work directly with users, strengthen the resiliency of the systems you own, work with vendor and open source teams. You’ll navigate ambiguous technical problems together with the team: prototyping solutions, taking calculated risks, and building momentum when the path forward isn't fully clear.
What you'll do
Champion and contribute to projects across the full platform stack. This includes enhancing developer tooling, scaling infrastructure, building control planes, and contributing to the Flink open source ecosystem.
Ship high-quality code and raise the team’s technical bar.
Collaborate extensively with platform users to ensure their success, as well as contributing to the roadmap of the team.
Join the 24/7 on-call rotation the resiliency of our platform
What you'll bring (we don’t expect you to have done all of this):
Reflexively use AI to accelerate and improve your daily work.
Prior experience working with Apache Flink and/or a track record of contributing to its open source projects in the domain is a major plus.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and distributed systems.
Have demonstrated experience in Java, Rust, Go, and/or ruby.
Have familiarity, as a user or maintainer, with data intensive systems, such as Kafka, Iceberg, and/or BigQuery.
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.