Senior Software Engineer, Data

About the position

Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive. We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.

Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion.
• Scale the platform to handle terabytes of data ingested from a variety of sources.
• Efficiently query and notify users on data in real-time.
• Optimize search algorithms to serve results quickly.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams.
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and/or in the open-source community.
• Ability to write robust, well-tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users.
• Solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems.
• Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React, Redux, and Mapbox.
• Experience with data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
• Knowledge of machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker.
• Experience with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $130,000 - $250,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable).
• Inclusive environment for all employees.
• Celebration of diversity and equal opportunity employer.