Principal Software Engineer, Knowledge Platform

Dataminr is a mission-driven team focused on real-time event detection using AI technology. The Principal Software Engineer will lead initiatives for the development of the Knowledge Platform, implementing best practices and developing solutions for a massive-scale knowledge graph.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-team initiatives supporting the development of Dataminr's Knowledge Platform
• Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product
• Develop pipelines and services for building and maintaining our massive-scale knowledge graph
• Work with other software engineers, data scientists and AI researchers in cross-functional teams to develop new capabilities that fuse knowledge and AI for automated alerting at scale
• Develop and apply AI solutions that automate data quality assessments and updates to the knowledge graph
• Develop solutions for knowledge graph data access and management, which includes the use of GenAI/LLMs
• Work on applications of AI over the knowledge graph

Requirements:

• M.S. in Computer science
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record of implementing and following strong engineering practices through hands-on coding
• Experience mentoring and/or influencing Sr and Jr engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and Scala
• Experience with data engineering and ETL pipelines
• Experience with cloud and distributed systems
• Ph.D. studies in any field is a plus
• Prior experience working with knowledge graphs is a plus