Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Multiple Teams

Posted on 7/2/2025

Imply

Imply

51-200 employees

Real-time analytics platform using Apache Druid

Compensation Overview

$155k - $215k/yr

Burlingame, CA, USA

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Java
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 4+ years of building and shipping production-quality services and APIs using Java
  • 2+ years of experience building and deploying systems and services using public cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Experience with identity concepts and protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT
  • Experience with implementing complex authorization rules, including RBAC
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews and deep focus on testability and quality
  • Strong communication skills: ability to explain complex technical concepts to designers, support staff, and other engineers
Responsibilities
  • Be an active part of our engineering team to design, set up, and scale our Identity (authentication and authorization) service.
  • Work cross functionally across product teams to build out our authentication and authorization capabilities, including modeling and implementing complex authorization rules
  • Conduct code reviews, analysis, and security audits
  • Write resilient tests to cover all functional requirements and conduct security audits
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with containerized application deployment using Kubernetes in CI/CD
  • Experience with authentication architectures using Keycloak or similar services.
  • Familiarity with policy agent concepts and implementations such as OPA or Oso
  • Familiarity with with security best practices, such as threat modeling, security testing,  vulnerability management

Imply analyzes large streams of events in real time using Apache Druid, a fast database for interactive analysis of big, event-driven data. Its offerings include Imply Cloud (a managed real-time analytics service) and on-premises deployments that let clients store, query, and visualize data as it arrives. The product suite combines Imply Pivot for interactive data exploration, Imply Clarity for performance analytics, Imply Manager for cluster deployment, and Imply Security for data protection. Its goal is to help tech firms, financial institutions, and other enterprises make fast, data-driven decisions by turning raw event data into actionable insights as it streams in.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$215.3M

Headquarters

Burlingame, California

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Pranav Parekh's September 2023 appointment boosts enterprise customer retention.
  • Developer Center launched October 2023 expands ecosystem via third-party apps.
  • 3:1 compression efficiency attracts enterprises from Splunk and Datadog.

What critics are saying

  • Databricks Lakehouse erodes market share in 6-12 months via integrated streaming.
  • Snowflake Cortex pulls customers with sub-second queries in 12-18 months.
  • Thoma Bravo's Q2 2026 Sumo Logic acquisition squeezes Imply from deals.

What makes Imply unique

  • Imply was founded in 2015 by Apache Druid's original creators.
  • Imply delivers real-time analytics for event-driven data like clickstreams and IoT.
  • Lumi Enterprise offers BYOC observability cutting costs 60-80% in AWS.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Fertility Treatment Support

Pet Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Mental Health Support

Life Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Home Office Stipend

Commuter Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

0%
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Business Wire
Jan 31st, 2024
Imply Honored With 2023 Confluent Rising Star Partner Of The Year Award

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, is proud to announce its receipt of a 2023 Confluent Partner Award. This recognition is for partners who play a key role in empowering customers to drive innovation with real-time data.Imply was recognized for its ongoing efforts in continually expanding its partnership with Confluent in FY23, laying the foundation for organizations to accelerate the development of real-time analytics applications. Industry-leading and digital-native organizations are leveraging these applications to interact with data at massive scale to deliver better product offerings, streamline operations, and improve customer experiences.This foundation brings together Imply and Confluent’s cloud-managed services for Druid and Apache Kafka®, respectively, offering developers:Real-time analytics on streaming data of any scale: Stream millions of events per second from Confluent to Imply Polaris, the cloud database service for Druid, with subsecond latency—making data instantly available for real-time analytics.A connector-free experience: Ingest data from Confluent directly into Polaris without installing and managing a connector.Cloud-native, fully-managed real-time architecture: Build real-time applications on Kafka and Druid without production risk and without infrastructure management, while accelerating time to value for real-time analytics.Organizations can now deliver a simplified experience for analyzing Kafka streams via Druid, the real-time analytics database built for streaming data. The seamless integration of Imply Polaris with Confluent Cloud makes it easier to use real-time data in various industries and use cases, including security and fraud analytics, product analytics, IoT/telemetry analytics, and application observability."We’re honored to receive the Confluent Rising Star Partner of the Year Award, reflecting our deepened relationship to create better business outcomes for customers unlocking the power of leveraging real-time data,” said John Broad, Vice President, Partners & Alliances at Imply. “Working alongside the Confluent team has been transformative for us, as evidenced by our rapid year-over-year growth, and we look forward to many more years of success together.”Connect with Confluent Partner ProgramThe Connect with Confluent Partner Program provides our users direct access to Confluent Cloud, the cloud-native data streaming platform. With its worldwide partner networks, including cloud service providers, systems integrators, and technology companies alike, Confluent ensures our customers receive the absolute best experience when working with real-time data.Confluent selected Imply for the Rising Star Partner of the Year (ISV) award, recognizing significant year-on-year growth.“We’re excited to recognize excellence across our partners within the data streaming ecosystem

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Apache Druid Wins Best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards

Apache Druid wins best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards.

Business Wire
Jan 26th, 2024
Apache® Druid Wins Best Big Data Product In The 2023 Bigdatawire Readers’ Choice Awards

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced that Apache Druid was named the winner of the Best Data Product and Top Big Data and AI Open Source Projects categories in the eighth annual BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami) Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. This award extends the phenomenal momentum and adoption that Apache Druid has had in 2023, reinforcing its leadership position as the database of choice for real-time analytics applications. “I’m thrilled the Druid community has received this award and recognition,” said Gian Merlino, PMC Chair for Apache Druid and CTO and Co-Founder of Imply. “It showcases our community’s commitment to making Druid the best analytics database for real-time analytics applications.”. Imply announced Project Shapeshift at Druid Summit 2021, representing a two-year strategic initiative designed to fundamentally evolve Apache Druid along three pillars: cloud-native, simple, and complete. While 1000s of companies have adopted Apache Druid for its query performance at scale and under load on streaming data, Project Shapeshift has focused on improving the developer experience, making it easier for engineering teams to build analytics applications

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Oct 31st, 2023
Imply Introduces a Developer Center for Analytics and Application Innovation

Burlingame, CA - October 31, 2023 - Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, is excited to announce the launch of its Developer Center.

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