Software Engineer 1

Seerist; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Unlimited PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Development Stipend

Health, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

Seerist is seeking a software engineer to join the Collections & Alerts team in Reston. You will design and implement high-volume data pipelines and event-driven architectures that feed real-time intelligence for security and risk teams across government and commercial customers.

You will work with analysts and product groups to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability, leveraging TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and AWS services in a collaborative, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-volume, low-latency data pipelines.
• Proficiency with TypeScript/Node.js/Python in production.
• Hands-on AWS (SQS, S3, ECR, CDK) and cloud cost awareness.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and querying.
• Familiarity with search and caching (OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Redis).

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-volume data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Architect event-driven systems and optimize queries and schemas.
• Instrument services for observability and monitor production issues.
• Collaborate with analysts and product teams to meet performance needs.

Skills

Experience with real-time data

Team collaboration

Software debugging

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

AWS SQS

AWS S3

AWS CDK

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch/ElasticSearch

Redis

Datadog

Job description

Company Overview

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. Every day, Seerist helps our customers support their operations and missions globally, ensuring informed, rapid decisions.

Company Overview

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. Every day, Seerist helps our customers support their operations and missions globally, ensuring informed, rapid decisions.

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.

Technical Skills Required

Languages: Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and other modern languages

Event-Driven Architecture: Experience designing and debugging event-driven systems (EventBridge, message queues, async patterns, orchestration)

Data Pipelines: Experience building high-volume, low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines; understanding of batch vs. real-time tradeoffs

AWS: Hands-on work with SQS, S3, ECR, AWS CDK; comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure costs and scaling

Databases: Working knowledge of both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB); experience optimizing queries and schema design for high-volume workloads

Search & Caching: Experience with in-memory data stores (Redis), familiarity with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch (full-text search, indexing strategies)

Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency with Datadog or similar monitoring tools; ability to instrument code for observability and debug production issues

Microservices: Understanding of service boundaries, async communication patterns, and debugging across distributed systems

Infrastructure as Code: Comfortable with AWS CDK or similar tools for defining infrastructure in code

Coding agents: Comfortable leveraging AI tooling for development acceleration, building custom skills, and automating repetitive tasks.

What Seerist Offers:

• An 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
• Competitive salary, bonus plan, 401(k) matching, and long-term incentives
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, and life plans
• A flexible and fun work environment that values work-life balance
• Hybrid position with 3 days in office per week and flexibility to work onsite as the program requires
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Development Stipend

Based in the greater Washington, DC metro area, in our Reston office three days per week, with the flexibility to work on site as the program requires.

Seerist is an equal opportunity employer. Seerist does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. #SF