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Grammarly

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Grammarly, Gates-North Gates, New York, United States,


Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub. All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.The opportunity

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help us build a world-class data platform. Grammarly’s success depends on its ability to efficiently ingest over 60 billion daily events while using our systems to improve our product. This role is a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex software systems: contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and building and shipping to production. Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure.Your impact

As a Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team, you will create engineering and analytical efficiencies as the owner of several crucial company-wide services. Our cutting-edge data lake is the central hub for all data producers and data consumers, so your impact will span all of Grammarly. You will have the opportunity to design and build sustainable and scalable systems. Software engineers on the Data Infrastructure team are responsible for ingesting, processing, and serving over 60 billion daily events. Grammarly relies on this team to unlock efficiencies of scale, provide real-time data to other services, and maintain the highest standards of data security.We invite you to share your knowledge, experience, and goals with us to help us find the best team match for you. Tell us your superpower!In This Role, You Will

Leverage AWS, write code, build data pipelines, and create brand-new systems while contributing to existing ones.Build and manage Grammarly’s central ingestion infrastructure.Work with partners (researchers, ML engineers, and others) across engineering teams to build tools that seamlessly incorporate data.Influence the big picture: make architectural decisions, research relevant technology, and plan for the future.We’re Looking For Someone Who

Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.Has experience with system design and building large distributed computing systems.Can knowledgeably choose a third-party service to accomplish what they need or, alternatively, can devise a quick and simple solution on their own.Has good knowledge of and some experience with AWS (or has deep expertise in Azure or GCE and is willing to learn AWS in a short time frame).Has experience with some of the following: Spark, Scala, Java, Kafka, Kinesis, Terraform.Understands data structures and algorithms at a level sufficient to write performant code when working with large datasets or large incoming data streams.Has at least three years of experience managing a live production environment, preferably a high-load system.Is a strong communicator. We are a tightly integrated team that takes a collaborative approach to our work and fosters a sense of shared ownership in our accomplishments. We expect colleagues to communicate proactively: talk, email, chat—you name it.Support for you, professionally and personally

Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.Compensation And Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)Disability and life insurance options401(k) and RRSP matchingPaid parental leaveTwenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick daysHome office stipendsCaregiver and pet care stipendsWellness stipendsAdmission discountsLearning and development opportunitiesGrammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.United States

Zone 1: $183,000 - $275,000/year (USD)Zone 2: $165,000 – $245,000/year (USD)Zone 3: $156,000 – $225,000/year (USD)Zone 4: $146,000 – $215,000/year (USD)Canada

Zone 1: $145,000 - $209,000 (CAD)Zone 2: $123,000 - $178,000 (CAD)We encourage you to apply. At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates.#NAAll team members meeting in person for official Grammarly business or working from a hub location are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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