Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundations

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Data Foundations (Backend): Designing, building, and operating backend systems that rely on scalable and highly available data persistence layers with an accent on database design, query performance, and data modeling. Focus on multi-regional data persistence and global scalability.

Company

Peloton provides expert instruction and world-class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that rely on scalable and highly available data persistence layers.
• Partner with service teams to improve database design, query performance, and data modeling.
• Contribute to automation around infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform and Backstage.
• Improve developer experience by building self-service tooling for databases and caching systems.
• Work on observability, performance insights, and autoscaling strategies for production datastores.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around multi-regional data persistence and global scalability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production backend systems.
• Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience working with NoSQL datastores such as DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or Memcache.
• Exposure to data pipelines, event-driven architectures, or systems that interface with streaming or batch processing frameworks.
• Experience operating services in cloud environments (preferably AWS).
• A strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: latency, consistency models, replication, and scaling strategies.

Who you are

• You think about data integrity first.
• You care about performance and understand that small database decisions can have large system-wide impact.
• You enjoy reducing manual toil through automation.
• You collaborate well with application engineers and platform teams.
• You want to grow deeper into database reliability, scalability, and cloud-native data systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Peloton brings together innovative hardware, distinctive software, and exclusive content.
• Millions of Members across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria.
• Peloton is an equal opportunity employer.