Principal Software Engineer, Knowledge Platform

About the position

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our AI knowledge team. The knowledge team builds and maintains our multi-million node knowledge graph, which powers Dataminr's real-time event detection and alerting platform. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your experience in software engineering, data engineering, and AI to shape the future of Dataminr's knowledge platform. This US-based role can be remote or based out of our New York City office.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-team initiatives supporting the development of Dataminr's Knowledge Platform.
• Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product.
• Develop pipelines and services for building and maintaining our massive-scale knowledge graph.
• Work with other software engineers, data scientists and AI researchers in cross-functional teams to develop new capabilities that fuse knowledge and AI for automated alerting at scale.
• Develop and apply AI solutions that automate data quality assessments and updates to the knowledge graph.
• Develop solutions for knowledge graph data access and management, which includes the use of GenAI/LLMs.
• Work on applications of AI over the knowledge graph.

Requirements

• M.S. in Computer Science.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of implementing and following strong engineering practices through hands-on coding.
• Experience mentoring and/or influencing Sr and Jr engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and Scala.
• Experience with data engineering and ETL pipelines.
• Experience with cloud and distributed systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Ph.D. studies in any field.
• Prior experience working with knowledge graphs.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Generous PTO and sick leave.
• Professional development funds.
• Robust employee resource group (ERG) network.
• Manager development programming.