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# Staff Software Engineer (Remote) at Imply

- **Company:** Imply
- **Location:** Burlingame California, United States
- **Posted:** 2025-04-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://imply.io/positions?gh_jid=6558076003

## Job description

At Imply, our mission is to empower people and organizations to achieve more with their data. We believe that better insights lead to better decisions, and that the right technology can remove barriers, spark innovation and create lasting impact. In addition to our successful database business, we’re building the industry’s first observability warehouse, Imply Lumi. Built by the creators of Apache Druid, Lumi lets organizations store more data, support more use cases and spend less for observability. Imply Lumi is a high-performance, cost-efficient data layer built to decouple existing observability tools with zero disruption.

In this role, you will help redefine what is possible with observability and security data. As part of the Engineering Team you will play an important role in bringing Imply Lumi to life. Lumi delivers lightning fast queries, significant cost savings and seamless integration with leading observability technologies while giving customers the freedom to innovate without vendor lock-in. You will be a part of the team innovating and building this first-in-class technology that allows our customers to unlock new levels of speed, scale and value from their data.

Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory, transforming how organizations manage and gain insights from their observability and security data. Our customers, including Pepsi, Reddit, Roblox, Salesforce, and others, rely on our technology to power faster decisions, reduce costs, and unlock new possibilities. Come join a team of innovators and problem-solvers who are reshaping the future of data!

The Role:

The Applications team at Imply is seeking a backend specialist with an interest in working with and on Apache Druid. Our team builds customer-facing applications leveraging the power of our database, Apache Druid, to simplify data management, ingestion, and analysis and to provide customers with powerful APIs and SDKs for integrating critical functionality into their automation and software. Applications is a full-stack team that builds across every layer of the product, from doing state-of-the-art database engineering through micro-services, all the way up to the UI.

Responsibilities:

- Implement and maintain micro-services and backend software components in modern Java
- Develop and maintain state-of-the-art features within Apache Druid
- Lead in the design and development of major features across teams
- Coordinate directly with PM, UX design, frontend engineers, and backend engineers to successfully deliver major initiatives, new features, and products
- Be on-call for production issues (2 weeks per cycle, 4-6 times per year)

Requirements:

- 5+ years experience building and maintaining highly scalable and reliable services in Java or a similar language
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, cloud providers such as AWS, and/or related technologies
- Experience using relational and/or OLAP databases
- Experience with agile methodologies
- Strong communication and coordination skills

Bonus Points:

- Experience using Apache Druid
- Open source contributions to Apache Druid or other open source database
- Experience using streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

What we offer:

- 100% Paid Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Program
- Fertility Coverage
- Pet Insurance
- Dependent Care FSA
- Mental Health Support
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Wellness Stipend
- Home Office Equipment Reimbursement
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits

Individual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience and qualifications aligned with Imply’s internal levelings guidelines and benchmarks. The below range encompasses roles with on target earnings. This role is also eligible to participate in Imply’s equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Compensation: $185,000 - $225,000

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that certain minority groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Imply, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or for other roles in the future.

Imply is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Please note, applications and candidate submissions are subject to our privacy policy and, for California residents, the CCPA terms available at https://imply.io/privacy.

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Attention: Imply Applicants

Due to reports of phishing, we’re requesting that all Imply applicants apply through our official Careers page at [imply.io/careers.](http://imply.io/careers) All official communication from Imply will come from email addresses ending with @imply.io.

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## About Imply

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Imply provides a commercial, full-stack platform built on the open-source Apache Druid real-time database to decouple observability stacks and power fast, cost-efficient analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, Series D, $215.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino, Vadim Ogievetsky

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data & Analytics / Observability / Real-time Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprises with large-scale observability, security, and business intelligence data needs (SMB to Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: To make it faster, cheaper, and more open to store, query, and analyze observability data – enabling AI/BI use cases without disrupting existing workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Imply Polaris**: A fully managed, cloud-native platform for Apache Druid that enables petabyte-scale streaming analytics, sub-second queries, and AI/BI integration (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Tableau, Power BI). Offers zero workflow changes when migrating from existing tools.
- **Imply Lumi (Loglake)**: A new product that allows enterprises to search unstructured logs directly in object storage, decoupling storage from compute and reducing costs.
- **Imply Self-Managed**: Commercial software and support for running Apache Druid on-premises or in customer-managed cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company, last Series D in April 2022 at $100M)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $215.3M; annual revenue estimated at $8.7M (LinkedIn data, may be outdated)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thoma Bravo (lead Series D), Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, OMERS Growth Equity, Geodesic Capital, Khosla Ventures (seed)
- **Growth Signals**: 127 employees (LinkedIn) or 170 employees (PitchBook); headcount grew +0.6% YoY; 8 active job postings; LinkedIn followers up 16.7% yearly; recent product launch (Lumi Loglake); patents for query-time data sessionization.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source moat**: Core technology is Apache Druid, a widely adopted real-time analytics database with a strong community. Imply is the primary commercial steward.
- **Zero workflow disruption**: Customers can keep existing dashboards, agents, and queries without migration effort – a strong differentiator for switching.
- **Cost efficiency**: Claims 70%+ cost reduction and 10x faster queries compared to traditional observability stacks.
- **AI/BI readiness**: Built-in integrations with LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) for conversational access and model training.

## Strategic Focus
- **Decoupling observability stacks**: Encouraging customers to break free from monolithic, expensive platforms (e.g., Splunk) by using a decoupled, open architecture.
- **AI and BI expansion**: Leveraging stored observational data for AI model training, data science, and business intelligence – not just dashboards.
- **Product portfolio growth**: Launching Lumi (Loglake) to address unstructured log search, expanding beyond structured analytics.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Backed by top-tier VCs (Thoma Bravo, a16z, Bessemer) with a strong open-source ethos. Rated 3.6/5.0 on employer review sites (102 reviews) – work-life balance (3.7), compensation (3.8), culture (3.4), career (3.5).
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: All current open positions (8) are listed as Remote; the company has offices in San Francisco (HQ) and Burlingame, CA, but embraces remote work.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge real-time analytics and open-source technologies (Apache Druid). Engineering team is 35% of org. Notable alumni from Splunk, AWS, Cloudera, Confluent.
- **Recent departures**: Senior Director of Engineering and Senior VP of Engineering left in Jan 2026 – may indicate leadership changes.

## Sources
1. [Imply Homepage](https://imply.io/)
2. [Imply About Page](https://imply.io/about-imply/)
3. [Imply Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/imply)
4. [Imply LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/imply)
5. [PitchBook Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/126130-87)

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