The Staff Software Engineer will play a key technical leadership role in shaping the future of the Brandwatch Consumer Research platform at Cision. This platform is a large-scale distributed system that transforms vast volumes of online conversations into real-time intelligence, enabling customers to uncover insights from billions of documents across social and traditional media sources.
What You'll Do
- Design and optimise APIs and data pipelines supporting high-throughput interactive analytics (real-time search, filtering and aggregations on billions of documents)
- Build and enhance distributed systems responsible for large-scale indexing, search, and data processing
- Drive performance, scalability, cost and reliability improvements in petabyte-scale systems
- Tune systems to make optimal use of cloud and datacenter resources
- Develop capabilities that enable customers to extract actionable insights from billions of documents across social and traditional media sources
- Lead design discussions and guide cross-team technical initiatives
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- Expertise in scalable architectures and large-volume data processing
- Proven technical leadership and ability to influence engineering direction
- A collaborative mindset and strong problem-solving skills
Technical Stack
Java, JavaScript, Python, Kafka, SQS, PostgreSQL, HBase, Solr, S3, Kubernetes, AWS
Benefits & Compensation
- Empower your impact at Cision
- Voice is heard, ideas are valued, and unique perspective fuels collective success
- Thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation
- Make meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate
- Build authentic connections that matter
- Drive bold innovations
- Create the conversations of tomorrow
- Fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion vital to driving culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success
- Reasonable accommodations provided for individuals with disabilities
Work Mode
Hybrid environment across datacenter and AWS, with team members located in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.
Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses. Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and provides reasonable accommodations upon request.
