Lead Software Engineer, Content Ingestion

🕒 May 2

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Muck Rack

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201 - 500 employees

💰 $180M Series A on 2022-09

Muck Rack’s Public Relations Management (PRM) platform enables thousands of organizations including Google, Knight Foundation, Pfizer, Golin, Zapier and Duolingo to build trust and tell their stories through earned media. Its media database curates hundreds of millions of data points to help PR teams find journalists, podcasters and content creators, generate coverage, monitor news and prove the value of their work. Journalists use Muck Rack’s free tools to showcase their portfolios, analyze news about any topic and measure the impact of their stories.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and evolve high-throughput data pipelines that ingest and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured and enriched datasets • Drive technical direction and architectural decisions across ingestion systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability • Improve data quality, correctness, and enrichment workflows to support downstream systems such as Search and Data Science • Build and operate distributed, event-driven systems and streaming pipelines with strong observability and fault tolerance • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Search, and Platform teams to deliver high-quality data that powers customer-facing features • Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing, raising the overall engineering bar • Identify and lead high-impact technical initiatives, balancing speed of delivery with system stability and long-term health

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures at scale • Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend programming language • Experience building and maintaining microservices that are reliable, observable, and scalable • Experience working with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, or similar systems • Experience with APIs and service communication patterns such as gRPC and Protocol Buffers • Experience working with large-scale data systems or high-throughput SaaS platforms • Expertise with relational or search databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch • Experience making technical tradeoffs in distributed systems related to performance, reliability, and maintainability

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup • Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership • Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions) • Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. • Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment • Standardized bonus or commission structure • 401(k) with employer contributions • Equity opportunities • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents • 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans • 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program • Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits • Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription • 4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days • 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days • Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion • Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training • Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly • 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development • Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives • Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation • Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide