Software Engineer 1

Seerist; Washington; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, and life plans

Hybrid work with 3 days in office

Unlimited PTO

Up to 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Development Stipend

401(k) matching

Job summary

Seerist is hiring a software engineer to join the Collections & Alerts team in the Washington area. You will design and build high-volume data ingestion pipelines and event-driven systems to power real-time intelligence for customers.

You will collaborate with intelligence analysts and product teams, optimize schemas for heavy load, instrument services for observability, and debug production issues across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python and event-driven data pipelines.
• Experience with AWS services and cost considerations.
• Experience with high-volume real-time data processing.
• Experience with observability and debugging production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build platform data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Design event-driven systems that process intelligence data at scale.
• Tune queries and schemas for heavy load and performance.
• Collaborate with analysts and product teams to meet requirements.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Event-driven

Data pipelines

AWS

SQS

S3

ECR

AWS CDK

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch/ElasticSearch

Datadog

Microservices

Infrastructure as Code

AI tooling

Tools

AWS CDK

Datadog

OpenSearch

ElasticSearch

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