# Software Engineer, Data at Interfere

- Company: Interfere
- What the company does: Interfere empowers engineers, product managers and designers with real-time understanding of previously unseen bugs and issues. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://interfere.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/interfere/f09a5246-a6d7-4de4-8556-e2e8f23f7420
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/interfere-software-engineer-data/

## About the role

You'll own the data backbone of Interfere. Every signal the product reasons about (events, traces, logs, runtime behavior, code, session data) flows through systems you'll build, store, and query. The product's intelligence is only as good as the data underneath it, and that data is only useful if it's accurate, fast, and affordable at scale. That's your job.

## What they're looking for

- You've built and operated production data infrastructure at meaningful scale, with real throughput, real cost pressure, and real consequences when it breaks
- You're fluent in distributed-systems tradeoffs: streaming vs batch, consistency vs latency, full fidelity vs sampling, storage vs compute. You pick the right answer for the situation rather than the one you read most recently
- You take an ambiguous data or infrastructure problem, define the next useful step, and ship without waiting for a fully specified plan
- You treat cost as a feature. A system that works at 1x and burns the company at 100x isn't finished
- You can explain pipeline behavior, failure modes, and tradeoffs clearly enough that engineers, AI researchers, and PMs can make the right call quickly

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