# Senior Software Engineer at Beacon

- Company: Beacon
- What the company does: Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://beacon.bio/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote / Boston, MA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals/jobs/4407556009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/beacon-senior-software-engineer/

## About the role

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Datastore team. The Datastore sits at the heart of Beacon's platform. It defines our foundational data model and serves as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies, supporting the analytical tools, services, and applications used by our scientists, clinicians, and partners.

## What they're looking for

- You implement features with attention to detail, demonstrating product awareness and high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability across the lifespan of the system
- You draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, soliciting and incorporating input, and helping your team align on a set of decisions to guide development
- You hold a high bar for correctness when data moves between systems: completeness, idempotency, and predictable behavior under partial failure
- You leverage feedback from internal stakeholders and external partners to improve operational robustness and ease of use of the Datastore and its services via new documentation, tools, and dashboards
- Strong proficiency in SQL, with production experience working with PostgreSQL as an application database, you write and tune queries by hand and are comfortable reasoning about schema design, indexes, and query plans
- Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing, using Kafka (our event bus) or an equivalent such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or a cloud-based equivalent like Amazon Kinesis

Tags: Platform Engineering