Staff Software Engineer - Prism

United States Digital Space LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO, paid sick time, parental

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training

Company virtual happy hours, free food

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform access

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a seasoned engineer for the Context Platform Systems to architect and build a durable memory substrate powering analytics workflows. This role stores decisions, intent, rationale, and history, accessible to humans, agents, and applications.

This greenfield, high-impact position offers substantial autonomy and collaboration with cross-functional teams to scale enterprise data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building distributed systems, data platforms, or infrastructure.
• Depth in data modeling, schema design, and shared platform design.
• Ability to reason about entire systems, not just components.

Responsibilities

• Prototype apt technical solutions and architect the Context Platform.
• Design schemas for Decision Memory and enterprise context.
• Own context storage systems (graph, vector, event/time-based).
• Build read/write/query APIs for agents, products, and external apps.
• Design permission-aware, auditable context access.
• Ensure interoperability and zero-lock-in by design.
• Collaborate with agentic systems engineers and product leadership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Greenfield problem solving

Data modeling

Platform design

APIs and contracts

Systems thinking

Bonus skills

Job description

From the company’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With the company, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About Us

the company and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. the company helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions. As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both the company and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We are building the next foundational layer of the analytics stack: an Enterprise Context Platform that captures, stores, and exposes organizational decision memory.

As a seasoned engineer on Context Platform Systems, you will architect and build the durable memory substrate that powers agentic analytics workflows. This platform stores not just metadata, but meaning: decisions, intent, rationale, and history — and makes it safely accessible to humans, agents, and applications.

This is a greenfield, high-leverage role with company-level impact.

What You’ll Do

• Prototype apt technical solutions and find best fits for the context engine. Architect and build the core Context Platform
• Design schemas and primitives for Decision Memory and enterprise context
• Own context storage systems (graph, vector, event/time-based)
• Build read/write/query APIs used by agents, products, and external apps
• Design permission-aware, auditable context access
• Ensure the context engine is interoperable, portable, and zero-lock-in by design
• Partner closely with agentic systems engineers and product leadership

What You’ll Own

• Context schemas and schema evolution strategies
• Storage and data modeling choices
• Platform APIs and interfaces
• Security, identity propagation, and audit foundations
• Long-term scalability and correctness of context data

What You Won’t Own

• Agent behavior or orchestration logic
• Business rules or governance policy decisions
• Product UI or workflow automation

(Those are consumers of the platform you build.)

Skills We’re Looking For

• Significant experience building distributed systems, data platforms, or infrastructure
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, greenfield problem spaces
• Deep expertise in data modeling and schema design
• Experience designing shared platforms used by many teams
• Strong instincts around APIs, contracts, and backward compatibility
• Ability to reason about systems, not just components

Bonus Skills (Optional)

• Experience with knowledge graphs, metadata systems, or search/retrieval systems
• Experience building systems with governance, auditability, or compliance requirements
• Familiarity with dbt or modern analytics stacks or developer tooling

Why This Role Matters

If this platform is built correctly:

• Agents become trustworthy
• Governance scales without slowing teams down
• We become the System of Decision for analytics

This role lays the foundation for the next S-curve of the company.

Perks and Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants*
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided