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It’s an exciting time at Crossbeam. We built our company on a simple but powerful realization: ecosystems hold untapped potential to transform how companies go to market. That insight became a movement, now embraced by more than 30,000 companies using Crossbeam to turn partnerships into a primary growth engine. We’re scaling with speed, focus, and a vision that’s reshaping the future of go-to-market, backed by top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Redpoint, FirstMark, Salesforce Ventures, and HubSpot Ventures (yep, the biggest CRMs are investing in the future of go-to-market).

The opportunity ahead is exciting, and we’re pursuing it with curiosity, high standards, and a shared commitment to doing the best work of our careers.

What is Crossbeam ?

Crossbeam is the first and largest Ecosystem-Led Growth platform. We act as an escrow service for data, allowing companies to find overlapping customers and prospects with their partners while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Companies use this data to sell more effectively, market to the right audiences, build the right products, collaborate with their service partners, generate demand, inform M&A, and more. This has created an entirely new way of doing business called “Ecosystem-Led Growth” or ELG—and it works: 40% of our customers\' closed deals come from their ecosystem.

Why Crossbeam is the Best Place to Work

• Thriving Customer Base: 30,000+ companies worldwide and growing.
• Significant Growth: Expanding global presence after a successful merger with Reveal.
• Innovative Culture: We celebrate innovation, teamwork, and customer success.
• Strong Resources: Well-funded and scaling with solid investor backing.

What You’ll Do

You will play a critical role in developing, enhancing, and maintaining Crossbeam’s backend systems and data pipelines with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop & Deploy: Consistently ship features and enhancements with guidance from team members.
• Work across the stack of our application, with a focus on data engineering and backend development.
• Create, test, and deploy high-quality code with a focus on data pipelines and backend services written in Clojure.
• Leverage workflow orchestration tools like Temporal to help the team manage distributed workflows and ensure reliability and scalability.
• Optimize performance of pipeline execution plans to ensure efficient processing of high volume of data.
• Use Datadog to monitor and improve the performance and reliability of backend systems.

Improvements & Support:

• Prioritize and address support issues reported by users or the Customer Success team.
• Identify areas for improvement in the codebase and contribute to enhancements.
• Work closely with engineers and members of teams like Product, Growth, and Customer Success to launch new features.
• Collaborate on cross-functional projects and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Provide tools and guidelines to the other engineering teams to ensure seamless data processing across the company.

Learning & Growth:

• Continuously learn from and contribute to your team.
• Cultivate an environment where questions and discussions improve the team as a whole.

What You’ll Bring

• Professional Experience: At least 3 years working in a professional engineering team.
• Backend Knowledge: Experience with backend development (we use Clojure, a functional programming language, but are open to those with transferable skills).
• Data Engineering Expertise: Proven experience building scalable data pipelines. While we use Temporal any alternatives (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Luigi) are valued. ELT, ETL, SQL, PL/SQL Pipeline Streaming
• Database Skills: Hands-on experience optimizing query plan and datastructure (Postgres, MySQL) or NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Scalability, Bigdata, Hadoop.
• Best Practices: You follow documentation best practices and strive for clean, maintainable code.
• Collaboration: Enjoy working with different teams to deliver the best possible product.
• Team Spirit: Thrive in an environment that values diverse opinions and respectful collaboration.
• Adaptability: Comfortable collaborating asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Problem-Solving: Embrace complex technical challenges and derive simple, effective soluti