Senior Software Engineer – Data and Platform Tools – Bloomberg Connects

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg Connects is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the infrastructure powering analytics, search, speech, computer vision, and AI features for the Connects platform in New York. You will design, build and operate the services end-to-end, shaping deployment and delivery patterns, and partnering with cross-functional teams to scale a cutting-edge cultural engagement product.

You will work with AI-assisted engineering practices, establish infrastructure standards, and contribute to a

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.
• Experience designing, building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Python and cloud platforms is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the distributed services that power Connects' analytics, search, speech, computer vision, generative AI, and agentic systems.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure that runs our AI features in production and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with backend, mobile and web teams on interfaces and infrastructure shared across systems.
• Own deployment, release and delivery pipelines and raise the standard of how we ship.
• Set architectural direction and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

Python

Cloud platforms

Container orchestration

Go

Rust

C++

Search infrastructure

AI-assisted engineering

RAG / Retrieval Augmented Generation

Speech/Computer vision

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

Senior Software Engineer – Data and Platform Tools – Bloomberg Connects

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10054281

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg Connects is a rapidly growing, free platform that helps museums, galleries, and cultural spaces make their institutions, stories and dynamic content more engaging to audiences around the world. Launched in 2019, Connects features multimedia guides with unique content exclusive to each of our over 1,500 cultural institution partners across 33 countries.

As part of Bloomberg's culture of giving back, Connects is a joint effort between Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies in support of their work to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people by focusing on five key areas: the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, and public health.

We believe that technology opens doors, and we created Connects as a part of our mission to make art and culture accessible to all—in-person, at-home, and anywhere.

We are a team of designers, researchers, marketers, editors, engineers, and leaders working together to enhance our partner's capacity to reach audiences around the world and improve their visitor experience. Built through empathy and research, qualitative and quantitative data, and experimentation and iteration, our products seek to delight and empower.

The Data and Platform Tools team builds and runs the services behind the platform's analytics, search, speech, computer vision, generative AI, and agentic systems. We are looking for a senior engineer to own the infrastructure those services are built on.

What's in it for you?

Own systems end to end: Design, build and operate the services behind Connects' analytics, search, speech, computer vision, and AI features, from architecture through to what runs in production.

Work on AI systems in production: Build and run the infrastructure behind our LLM-based and agentic features, from deployment through evaluation.

Work the way we're building toward: Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices in your own daily work, and help build the internal platform and tooling other disciplines rely on to do the same.

Shape how we build: Establish the infrastructure, deployment and delivery patterns our services are built on.

Shape global cultural engagement: Directly impact how millions access and experience art and culture through a rapidly expanding platform.

Contribute to a philanthropic mission: Align your work with a meaningful initiative supporting arts and cultural accessibility.

We'll trust you to:

• · Design, build and operate the distributed services that power Connects' analytics, search, speech, computer vision, generative AI, and agentic systems
• · Build and maintain the infrastructure that runs our AI features in production
• · Contribute directly to our agentic core platform and tooling — used across engineering and, increasingly, every discipline on the product team
• · Own the deployment, release and delivery pipelines our services depend on, and raise the standard of how we ship
• · Take architectural decisions that carry real weight, and distribute that knowledge across the team
• · Partner with engineering teams across Connects — backend/api, mobile and web teams — on the interfaces and infrastructure our systems share
• · Participate in a cross-functional agile team spanning design and engineering

You'll need to have:

• · A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience

We’d love to see:

• · Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
• · Designing and owning CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins
• · Designing, building and operating distributed systems and services in production
• · Owning services across their full lifecycle — architecture, deployment, operation and evolution — rather than handing them off
• · Proficiency in Python
• · Working with cloud platforms and cloud-native services
• · Containerized workloads and orchestration
• · Real, current use of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools in your own work — this is how the team operates, not an occasional aid
• · Setting technical direction and working independently
• · Building or operating LLM and agent systems in production, including evaluation frameworks
• · Experience working in a compiled language such as Go, Rust, C++, etc.
• · Search infrastructure and indexing pipelines
• · Vector embeddings/databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation
• · Speech (TTS/STT) or computer vision systems in production

Salary Range = 160,000-240,000 USD Annual+ Benefits + Bonus

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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