Staff Software Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join Brandwatch Group Limited, a global leader in PR, marketing, and social media management technology and intelligence, as a Staff Software Engineer. We empower brands and organizations to identify, connect, and engage with their customers and stakeholders to drive tangible business results. At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of the Brandwatch Consumer Research platform. This is a unique opportunity to work on a large-scale, distributed system that transforms vast volumes of online conversations into real-time intelligence, utilized by organizations worldwide.
• • In this critical role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding the development and enhancement of complex systems that are foundational to our product offering. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and optimizing the core components of our platform, which spans sophisticated search capabilities, real-time data processing pipelines, and robust distributed databases. Your expertise will directly contribute to our ability to deliver cutting-edge insights from the ever-growing digital landscape.
• • Your primary responsibilities will involve the design and optimization of APIs and data pipelines that support high-throughput interactive analytics. This includes ensuring seamless real-time search, efficient filtering, and accurate aggregations on petabytes of data, encompassing billions of documents. You will be at the forefront of building and enhancing distributed systems responsible for large-scale indexing, search, and complex data processing, ensuring our platform remains performant and scalable.
• • A significant aspect of this role is driving improvements in performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and overall reliability of our petabyte-scale systems. You will be tasked with tuning these systems to ensure optimal utilization of cloud and datacenter resources, making smart architectural decisions that balance performance with operational efficiency. Furthermore, you will develop critical capabilities that empower our customers to extract actionable insights from the immense volume of data available across social and traditional media sources, enabling them to understand market trends, brand sentiment, and competitive landscapes.
• • Beyond individual contributions, you will lead design discussions, mentor junior engineers, and guide cross-team technical initiatives. Your ability to influence engineering direction and foster a collaborative environment will be key to our success. You will work closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• • The Brandwatch Consumer Research platform is built on a modern technology stack. Key technologies include Java for backend services, with some Javascript and Python for supporting tools and frontend interactions. Data streaming is handled efficiently using Kafka and SQS. For storage and search, we leverage PostgreSQL, HBase, Solr, and S3. Our infrastructure is a Kubernetes-based hybrid environment, spanning both our own datacenters and AWS, providing flexibility and scalability.
• • This role offers the chance to work on challenging problems at scale, with a direct impact on a product used by leading global brands. You will have the opportunity to grow your skills, contribute to architectural decisions, and shape the future of social listening and media intelligence. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building high-quality, scalable software and who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment. If you are ready to make a significant impact and contribute to a product that provides invaluable intelligence to businesses worldwide, we encourage you to apply.