Software Engineer 1
About The Position
You will join the Collections & Alerts software development team to build the platform's data ingestion and processing infrastructure. Your pipelines power real-time intelligence; when they fail, customers notice. You'll design and build high-volume data pipelines, architect event-driven systems that process intelligence data at scale, optimize queries and schemas for heavy load, instrument services for observability, and debug production issues across distributed systems. You'll work directly with our intelligence analysts and product team to understand requirements and ensure software meets both performance and analytical needs.
Requirements
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and other modern languages
- Experience designing and debugging event-driven systems (EventBridge, message queues, async patterns, orchestration)
- Experience building high-volume, low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines; understanding of batch vs. real-time tradeoffs
- Hands-on work with SQS, S3, ECR, AWS CDK; comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure costs and scaling
- Working knowledge of both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB); experience optimizing queries and schema design for high-volume workloads
- Experience with in-memory data stores (Redis), familiarity with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch (full-text search, indexing strategies)
- Proficiency with Datadog or similar monitoring tools; ability to instrument code for observability and debug production issues
- Understanding of service boundaries, async communication patterns, and debugging across distributed systems
- Comfortable with AWS CDK or similar tools for defining infrastructure in code
- Comfortable leveraging AI tooling for development acceleration, building custom skills, and automating repetitive tasks
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-volume data pipelines
- Architect event-driven systems that process intelligence data at scale
- Optimize queries and schemas for heavy load
- Instrument services for observability
- Debug production issues across distributed systems
- Work directly with intelligence analysts and product team to understand requirements and ensure software meets both performance and analytical needs
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- bonus plan
- 401(k) matching
- long-term incentives
- Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, and life plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Up to 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Professional Development Stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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