Software Engineer 1

Join Seerist, a leading provider of AI-driven, augmented analytics for threat and risk intelligence, designed to help commercial organizations and government anticipate, monitor, and manage global risks. Seerist delivers real-time insights, forecasts, and alerts that bring clarity to decisions and save valuable time for security and intelligence teams.

About the role

You will join the Collections & Alerts software development team to build the platform's data ingestion and processing infrastructure. Your pipelines power real-time intelligence; when they fail, customers notice. You'll design and build high-volume data pipelines, architect event-driven systems that process intelligence data at scale, optimize queries and schemas for heavy load, instrument services for observability, and debug production issues across distributed systems. You'll work directly with our intelligence analysts and product team to understand requirements and ensure software meets both performance and analytical needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-volume data pipelines
• Architect event-driven systems that process intelligence data at scale
• Optimize queries and schemas for heavy load
• Instrument services for observability
• Debug production issues across distributed systems
• Work directly with intelligence analysts and product team to understand requirements and ensure software meets both performance and analytical needs

Requirements

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and other modern languages
• Experience designing and debugging event-driven systems (EventBridge, message queues, async patterns, orchestration)
• Experience building high-volume, low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines; understanding of batch vs. real-time tradeoffs
• Hands-on work with SQS, S3, ECR, AWS CDK; comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure costs and scaling
• Working knowledge of both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB); experience optimizing queries and schema design for high-volume workloads
• Experience with in-memory data stores (Redis), familiarity with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch (full-text search, indexing strategies)
• Proficiency with Datadog or similar monitoring tools; ability to instrument code for observability and debug production issues
• Understanding of service boundaries, async communication patterns, and debugging across distributed systems
• Comfortable with AWS CDK or similar tools for defining infrastructure in code
• Comfortable leveraging AI tooling for development acceleration, building custom skills, and automating repetitive tasks

Benefits

• Opportunity to be a part of a fast-moving organization with cutting edge technology
• A culture that is dynamic, diverse, trust-centered, and open to bold ideas
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, and life plans
• A flexible and fun work environment that values work-life balance
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Development Stipend

Pay

Competitive salary, bonus plan, 401(k) matching, and long-term incentives.

Schedule

Hybrid position with 3 days in office per week, with flexibility to work onsite as the program requires.