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Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Streaming Services/Materialization PlatformRemote - Americas
Shopify · Posted today
Own the CDC and materialization pipelines that carry every write to Shopify's core orders, inventory, and product databases into delivery, search, and LLM agent systems.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Streaming Services/Materialization Platform Remote - Americas Senior Infrastructure Engineer Streaming Services/Materialization Platform About the role Every write to Shopify's core databases—orders, inventory, product data—flows through the CDC and materialization pipelines this team owns. Downstream, that data powers Shop's delivery guarantees, merchant-facing search, and the LLM agents that answer questions about live commerce state. You'll evolve and operate this platform: the throughput it sustains, the freshness it can promise, and the databases it reads from.
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
- Build and operate Shopify's CDC and Data Materialization platforms, ensuring they meet the throughput and reliability demands of Shopify's event-driven systems
- Solve complex production issues at scale and participate in on-call rotation
- Contribute back to open source and vendor codebases
- Lead execution on impactful projects in the team's charter
- Use and shape how the team uses AI for design, coding, and collaboration
- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across Shopify, and external vendor dev teams
- Drive for engineering excellence, balancing operational strength and shipping features
- Communicate with diverse audiences (cross-team RFCs, leadership briefs, non-technical stakeholders)
What you'll bring You don't have to fully cover this list. Ideally:
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