Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About the position

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently. Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do. We’re looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and make a big impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core components that are used across multiple feature teams that ultimately drive customer features and value
• Help curate frameworks, tooling, and best practices to enhance developer productivity and improve system reliability
• Help champion new technology by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies that benefit the broader engineering organization
• Advocate for and contribute to automation and observability to support scalability and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with feature teams to understand their pain points and provide solutions that simplify development and deployment processes
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience
• Drive and support engineering best practices, including code quality, security, and performance optimizations

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Strong background in Python and its ecosystem
• Experience with Django or similar web frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining microservices, including monitoring, scaling, and operationalizing them
• Experience working with high-traffic, complex web applications or SaaS platforms, ideally with large data volumes
• Expertise in optimizing databases such as MySQL (or Postgres) and/or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Familiarity with gRPC/protobuf

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kafka or related streaming technologies (Kinesis, Flink, Beam)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration

Benefits

• Remote Work, Forever: Fully distributed team with home office setup, phone & internet reimbursement, and monthly coworking membership
• Transparent Compensation: Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. with annual reviews
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 24/7 Virtual Care, and wellness stipend
• PTO and Family Benefits: 4+ weeks of PTO, paid sick/mental health days, and up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Personal & Professional Development: Internal pathways for advancement, bi-annual performance reviews, and unlimited subscriptions to L&D platforms
• Culture of Inclusion: Commitment to diverse perspectives and equitable treatment