Staff Software Engineer

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join Reference and Entity Data Systems (REDS) and own the design and evolution of our entity data platform — ingesting company data from global vendors, resolving it into authoritative records, and delivering accurate, timely data to downstream teams and customers. REDS owns vendor ingestion, entity generation, data quality and freshness, and delivery to downstream consumers.

If entity data is wrong, incomplete, or stale, everything downstream fails. Human validation still acts as a safety net in parts of the pipeline. Your mission is to systematically reduce that dependency by increasing correctness, confidence, and trust — without sacrificing speed or scale.

You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, entity resolution, data quality, AI-assisted decision-making, and platform architecture.

8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems

Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale

Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation

Strong code, system design, and architecture pattern skills

Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches

Delivery excellence: incident response, observability, and reliability improvements that stick

Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently

Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, and elevating peers through documentation and mentoring

End-to-end ownership from integration through entity generation to operational readiness

Experience with company or financial reference data, or vendor reconciliation (preferred)

Provenance, lineage, confidence-scoring, or quarantine/resolution workflows (preferred)

Integrating new data vendors end to end (preferred)

Cloud-native architectures and internal platforms shared across teams (preferred)

What You’ll Do:

Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform

Design systems that process large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy

Reduce manual validation overhead through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules

Establish clear contracts for correctness and traceability — e.g., which source supplied a field, why an entity was matched or created

Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches where each improves reliability and explainability

Deliver end-to-end integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and delivery

Respond to production incidents in your area; improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening

Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product and downstream consumers on quality bars and success metrics

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

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