Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform, Python

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September 18

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Experian

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Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Experian is a global leader in digital experience, technology, and transformation. They partner with recognized brands to enhance customer understanding, innovate product strategies, and implement agile technology solutions. With a focus on delivering superior customer experiences through AI, cloud architecture, and project management, Experian helps businesses streamline their operations and achieve their objectives effectively.

10001 employees

Founded 1996

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Provide strategic technical leadership for our real-time API platform powering mission-critical, high-throughput services • Architect and evolve platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability (4–5 9s uptime) • Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects like event-driven architecture, observability, service mesh integration, and rate-limiting strategies • Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to align technical execution with priorities • Define and promote best practices for API design, versioning, patterns, and developer experience • Bring complex projects from concept to production; lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems • Lead reliability, scalability, and performance efforts; work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability, incident response, and system tuning

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems and API design • Experience designing and operating real-time, low-latency API platforms at scale • Experience with protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets), caching, load balancing, and API security • Experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, Rust, or Node.js) • Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python) • AWS and Python experience • Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus) • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks • DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes • Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team

🏖️ Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan • Core benefits including medical, dental, vision • Matching 401K • Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office • Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays • Explore all our exciting benefits here: https://yourexperianbenefits.com/cand-index.html