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Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

  • Remote
  • 6+ years

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$40,000 - 100,000/ year

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Description

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The company monitors social and ad platforms for unlicensed commercial use of music on behalf of record labels and publishers. Our backend scans, ingests and processes tens of millions of posts every month and turns them into cases our customers act on. You'll work across the backend, with a particular focus on how data comes into the system.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and own production backend services and APIs end-to-end.
  • Improve our data ingestion layer: crawlers, third-party data providers, and the pipelines that load into our databases.
  • Make data collection reliable and cost-efficient, including proxy strategy, rate limits, retries, and evaluating and selecting vendors.
  • Work on high-throughput systems: queues, consumers, large datasets and observability.
  • Ship product features with the team from API to production.
  • What makes you a good fit:
  • 4+ years of professional work experience building production backends in Go, Node.js, Python or similar.
  • Strong experience with databases like PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and others, and AWS services such as ECS, RDS, Lambda and CloudWatch.
  • Experience building data ingestion or crawling systems at scale, and comfortable dealing with unreliable external sources.
  • Strong understanding of system design principles for production-grade systems.
  • Well integrated with AI coding tools like Claude, Codex etc.
  • Comfortable with US timezones.
  • What makes you a great fit:
  • Experience with web scraping, proxies (residential/mobile) or headless browsers in production.
  • Proven experience with very large datasets and analytical (OLAP) workloads.
  • Strong sense of cost optimization and build-vs-buy judgment when choosing vendors.
  • Experience building with LLM APIs or agents.

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere - We're a distributed team across multiple timezones with a focus on outputs instead of location or working hours.
  • Generous PTO policy.
  • Competitive pay bracket.
  • Please read before applying:
  • Please include a note where you answer in not more than 100 words: 'What is the most complex data ingestion or backend system you've built where you were the sole or primary developer? Mention the technical details, scale, and the hardest failure you had to handle.'
  • Applications that don't include the note or meet the minimum requirements will not be considered.
  • We review every application and have not more than 4 rounds in the process with a decision within 14 days of applying.
  • Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, ClickHouse
  • Experience: 3+ years
  • Visa: US citizenship/visa not required

Where you’d work

Fully remote

No visa sponsorship

Your chances

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Actively hiring

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Very wide salary range: $40K to $100KSlight evidence
  • Pays less than 96% of similar roles we trackSlight evidence

How crowded?

6 checks

Low

In its favour4

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Pays below most similar roles, which thins the crowdSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Remote from anywhere: the widest pool of applicants there isModerate evidence

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Details12 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • LLMs
Seniority
Senior
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Specialty
Data Engineering
Region
United States
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Role

Category
Data & Analytics
Specialty
Data Engineering
Seniority
Senior
Experience
3+ years
Tech stack
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Remote
Region
United States
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$40,000 - 100,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

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