Staff Software Engineer

Realm New York, NY $230,000 - $280,000
Full Time Lead Level 7+ years

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About This Role

Architect the core intelligence layer for an AI-powered search and ranking platform. This role involves owning the end-to-end architecture of a large-scale search and sourcing platform, focusing on data ingestion, indexing, ranking, and personalization to deliver ranked, personalized insights to investment firms.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end architecture of a large-scale search and sourcing platform, spanning data ingestion, indexing, ranking, and personalization
  • Design and scale distributed systems that process and serve high volumes of structured and unstructured data
  • Build reliable, high-performance pipelines and services with strong guarantees around latency, correctness, and cost
  • Establish robust evaluation and observability frameworks to measure system quality and performance
  • Partner with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical designs
  • Mentor engineers and set the long-term architectural direction across the platform

Requirements

  • 7–8+ years building distributed or large-scale backend systems
  • Experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems
  • ML/LLM systems in production
  • Strong background in data-intensive or event-driven architectures
  • Proven technical leadership at Staff level

Qualifications

  • 7–8+ years building distributed or large-scale backend systems

Skills

Distributed Systems * Event-driven architectures * ML/LLM systems * Data-intensive architectures *

* Required skills

Benefits

Equity
Full benefits

About Realm

An early-stage search infrastructure company.

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