# Senior Data Infra Engineer at News Break

- Company: News Break
- What the company does: NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
- Company website: https://www.newsbreak.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4692231006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/news-break-senior-data-infra-engineer/

## About the role

NewsBreak reaches tens of millions of users every day. Every feed ranking decision, every recommendation, every A/B test, and every ML model we ship runs on the data infrastructure you'd own. We're looking for a senior engineer to build and scale the batch and streaming pipelines at the core of that platform — someone who takes end-to-end ownership, drives reliability, and can translate ambiguous business needs into production-grade data systems.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of data engineering experience, with at least 3 years owning production pipelines in a distributed data environment
- Strong hands-on experience with Spark and Kafka at scale — you've debugged a production incident in both, not just run tutorials
- Experience with big-data technologies including Hadoop, Presto/Trino, and Flink
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, Scala a plus
- Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably AWS (S3, EMR, Glue, Redshift)
- Track record of improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of data systems — with measurable results

Tags: Engineering