Staff Software Engineer, Backend

See yourself at Dataminr

As a Staff Software Engineer you will be joining our fast-moving product engineering team working on the future of our alerting platform. In your day to day you will be architecting and delivering features for a large scale globally distributed platform and set of applications that ingests and processes hundreds of thousands of data points per second. This US-based role can be remote or based out of our New York City office.

At Dataminr, we are over 600 talented individuals, spanning te global offices, united by our passion to use AI for the greater good and be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

We offer a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you healthy and happy:

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plan options for employees, domestic partners and their dependents

• Generous PTO, flexible sick days and remote working options

• Paid parental leave and family forming benefits

• Mental health benefits and support

• Company equity (RSUs)

As a global company, we hire talented, unique individuals of many backgrounds and life experiences, who are encouraged to be their authentic selves—and who support their team members to do the same. We strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity.

We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form.

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, learning and development funds, and more.

The opportunity

• Influence the next iterations of our architecture as we strive to get critical data to our clients faster and with near-perfect reliability.

• Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product.

• Contribute code to production systems from the get-go.

• Share responsibility for several microservices and design significant features that impact multiple services, across team boundaries

• Partner with other members of the team to plan and deliver the next iteration of our customer applications to support emerging use cases for our product.

What You Bring
At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• 7+ years of experience building back end services and applications.

• Strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, data storage/retrieval and programming skills.

• Self orienting and a bias for action.

• Ability to lead 0 to 1 projects and drive alignment across teams and functions.

• Experience mentoring and influencing Senior and Junior engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers.

Good to Have

• Experience with Elixir, Erlang, Scala and/or other functional programming languages

• Strong understanding of RESTful API and GraphQL best practices

• Experience working with large scale distributed systems, microservices, real time streaming data and messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS

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About Dataminr

Dataminr is a mission-driven AI company that delivers real-time information from 1M+ public data sources, empowering organizations to respond to critical events and emerging risks before they unfold. Founded as an AI company in 2009, Dataminr has the history and tenure in artificial intelligence, and has developed pioneering technology that is redefining the future of real-time information. Recognized as one of the world’s leading AI businesses, recently, Dataminr launched ReGenAI, the first generative AI that automatically regenerates in real-time. Most recently valued at $4.1B, our technology is leveraged by more than two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100 companies who all rely on our AI because we do something that others cannot do.

Watch our CEO Ted Bailey, discuss the Future of Real-Time Information, the breadth of customers who trust Dataminr, and our proprietary ReGenAI technology here .

At Dataminr, we are creating a team of talented builders, creators and visionaries to have a real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. We operate all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of client charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

The annual base salary range for this position is $155,200 - $215,000. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.