Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Cloud)

Who We Are:

Materialize is a real-time data platform built on a breakthrough in incremental computation, enabling up-to-date, trustworthy views into any aspect of your business using just SQL. Build and adapt live, composable data products in minutes—with the team you already have. Use Materialize to power data-intensive UIs, deliver fresh context to AI/ML pipelines, and create dynamic digital twins of manufacturing processes for real-time optimization. Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Ryder, and Fubo.tv to solve their most pressing real-time data challenges.

Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.

I nvestors:

Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

About the Role

As a member of our Cloud team you will have broad exposure to all of the systems that make Materialize operate. You will build and run our fully managed cloud service, contribute directly to our self-managed offering, make improvements to our internal operational systems, and spend time in our Console UI.

We are looking for a versatile, full stack engineer who is excited by making an impact no matter where in the stack a problem lies—from cloud networking and Kubernetes operators, to backoffice billing infra, to frontend features, to CI/CD pipelines.

To dive into some recent work by our Cloud team and learn about our architecture, check out The Making of Self-Managed Materialize .

This role will be based out of our NYC office (near Astor Place) either as full-time in office or hybrid (~3x days/week in office).

Responsibilities

• Own and operate our managed cloud, ensuring security, availability, and performance for our SaaS product.


• Automate and streamline operations: write database orchestration logic, maintain robust CI pipelines, and bring order to the intersection points between cloud infra and business operations.


• Contribute to our Console UI that serves as the entry point for users discovering, querying, and operating Materialize.


• Contribute to our self-managed offering that enables customers to deploy Materialize in their cloud of choice.


• Debug and resolve complex distributed cloud issues—from tricky network glitches to Kubernetes operator quirks and third-party integrations.

About You

• You have 5+ years of software engineering experience.


• You are eager to be a generalist: ready to learn quickly, ramp up in new areas, and tackle a variety of challenges, big or small.


• You can work from our NYC office (or are open to relocating).


• You have strong experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), and are familiar with frontend (TypeScript, React) development.


• You possess a growth mindset, always looking to expand your skills and capabilities.


• You're a clear communicator and enjoy collaborating closely across teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience with GCP and/or Azure.


• Experience operating production databases or managing other critical systems.


• Willingness to participate in our voluntary on-call rotation.


• Passionate about databases and distributed systems!

SALARY RANGE: $160,000 - 225,000 + Equity

The salary range provided in this job description should not be considered a guarantee or commitment. The actual compensation offered may vary based on individual qualifications objectively assessed during the application and interview process, including but not limited to the candidate’s:

• Qualifications and relevant work experience


• Educational background and credentials


• Relevant skills and certifications


• Geographic location


• Market demands

Materialize reserves the right to adjust the salary range based on the candidate's specific circumstances and the overall compensation package.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.