Software Engineer 1

Seerist, Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus plan

401(k) matching

Health/dental/vision/life benefits

Hybrid work model

Unlimited PTO

16 weeks paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Seerist, Inc. is seeking a software engineer to join the Collections & Alerts team, building high-volume data ingestion and processing infrastructure for real-time intelligence. You will design event-driven systems, optimize schemas, and ensure observability across distributed services.

You will collaborate with intelligence analysts and product teams to translate requirements into scalable, performant solutions, while working in a hybrid Reston, VA environment with three in-office days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and debugging event-driven systems.
• Experience building high-volume, low-latency ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Hands-on work with AWS services (SQS, S3, ECR, CDK).
• Knowledge of relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB).
• Familiarity with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and full-text search strategies.
• Proficiency in instrumenting code for observability and debugging production issues.
• Understanding of microservices, async communication, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build data ingestion and processing pipelines for real-time intelligence.
• Design and debug event-driven architectures and services.
• Optimize queries and schemas for high-volume workloads.
• Instrument services for observability and performance.
• Debug production issues across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with analysts and product teams to meet requirements.

Skills

Event-driven architecture

Data pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Microservices

Infrastructure as Code

AI tooling for development

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

AWS CDK

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Datadog

SQS

S3

ECR

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.

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

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.