Senior Engineer II, Data Products

About this role

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the role:</strong></span></p> <p>Forter is looking for a Senior Engineer II to join our Data Products team.&nbsp;</p> <p>The team owns the data platform layer underneath Forter's core operations.&nbsp;</p> <p>It builds and operates the real-time data processing systems, quality pipelines, schema infrastructure, and knowledge base tooling that make agent-driven work trustworthy at scale.&nbsp;</p> <p>At peak, the streaming systems the team works on handle ~350,000&nbsp; events per second while sustaining thousands of transactions per second through Flink-based pipelines.</p> <p>We're looking for a Senior Engineer II to join the team as a technical anchor: a team player with the range to drive architecture and the willingness to be hands-on in execution.</p> <p><strong>Why should you join us?</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a platform role at an inflection point. Every AI workflow at Forter runs on the data layer this team owns. The better the foundation, the faster the rest of the company can build.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate Flink-based streaming pipelines at production scale, the real-time processing systems at the core of Forter's internal workflows</li> <li>Own data quality and observability infrastructure: schema contracts, freshness monitoring, ownership registries, and the alerting systems that catch problems before they affect downstream processes</li> <li>Build and evolve the knowledge base tooling that makes institutional context queryable for agents and engineers</li> <li>Drive data integrity work: design systems that recover reliably from failure and make the underlying platform trustworthy by default.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll need:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>7+ years of production backend or data infrastructure experience.</li> <li>Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to explain complex systems and facilitate collaborative solutions.</li> <li>Deep experience with stream processing systems (Flink, Kafka, or equivalents) at production scale, including failure modes, recovery, and operational burden.</li> <li>Strong distributed systems instincts: you think about correctness and reliability before you think about features.</li> <li>Experience with data quality or observability infrastructure. You've built or owned the systems that keep a data platform honest.</li> <li>Internal product mindset: you treat the teams you serve as customers and make deliberate choices about what to build vs. what not to build.</li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>It'd be really cool if you also:</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li>Have worked with data contracts, schema registries, or data governance tooling</li> <li>Have experience with JVM languages (Scala, Java, Kotlin) and big data DBs (Aerospike/elasticsearch/etc)</li> <li>Have contributed to agentic or LLM-adjacent infrastructure. You understand what "data quality for agents" actually means in practice</li> <li>Have operated at a team technical anchor level in a small, high-scope team where breadth of ownership is the norm</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Us:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forter was built to meet this moment — and stay ahead of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey — from sign-up to checkout to returns — that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it’s humans or the agents shopping for them. The result: zero friction for the customers who matter. No revenue left behind.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The world's most trusted brands — Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them — rely on Forter to get this right. Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commerce decisions for nearly 1 million businesses globally. We're more than fraud, payments and orchestration – we make trust a competitive advantage.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Trust is backed by data –&nbsp; Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024,<a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7039960"> 2025</a>)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023, 2024 and<a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/new-york/2024?category=small-and-medium"> 2025</a>)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/?sh=5675f5797d9c">2025</a>)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (<a href="https://www.payments-awards.com/awards/winners24.php">2024</a>)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Life as a Forterian:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forterians are, genuinely, some of the best people you'll work with. Smart, curious, and deeply good humans who care about the work and each other. That's not an