Advance Shopify’s Apache Flink platform through open source contribution, engine expertise, and infrastructure leadership at significant scale.
As a Staff Engineer on Streaming Compute, you will push the core Flink ecosystem forward internally and in the open source community. Shopify relies on Flink for streaming and batch pipelines supporting business-critical recommendations, catalog, and analytics workloads. You will tackle difficult engine-level problems while raising engineering standards for operating Flink at scale.
Key Responsibilities: Push the boundaries of the core Apache Flink ecosystem
Investigate difficult runtime, state, and checkpointing problems
Improve reliability as streaming workloads grow
Drive initiatives across teams through technical influence




Contribute through code, FLIPs, reviews, or active involvement
Requirements: Demonstrated Apache Flink expertise at significant production scale
Ability to debug and tune beyond the API level
Solid fundamentals in distributed data processing systems
Open source community contribution or appetite to start
Ability to lead, mentor, and set technical direction
Use open source engagement, Apache Flink depth, and platform leadership to shape Shopify’s next-generation Streaming Compute infrastructure.

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📌 Staff Data Platform Engineer Open Source (Manitoba)
🏢 Shopify
📍 Manitoba