See yourself at Dataminr
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be joining our fast-moving product engineering team working on the future of our alerting platform. In your day-to-day you will be architecting and delivering features for a large-scale, globally distributed platform and set of applications that ingests and processes hundreds of thousands of data points per second.
At Dataminr, we are creating a team of talented builders, creators and visionaries to have a real-world impact on how organizations respond to fast-emerging events as they unfold. We are over 600 talented individuals, spanning seven global offices, united by our passion to use AI for the greater good and be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.
This role is based in Romania and can be either fully remote or based in our Cluj-Napoca office.
AI Innovation at Dataminr
Working at Dataminr, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.
Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.
Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks, allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here.
Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.
In this job, you'll get to...
Influence the next iterations of our architecture as we strive to get critical data to our clients faster and with near-perfect reliability.
Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product.
Contribute code to production systems from the get-go.
Share responsibility for several microservices and design significant features that impact multiple services, across team boundaries.
Partner with other members of the team to plan and deliver the next iteration of our customer applications to support emerging use cases for our product.
What You Bring (Qualifications)
5+ years of experience building back-end services and applications
Strong object-oriented design, API design, data modeling, data storage/retrieval and programming skills
Self-orienting and a bias for action
Ability to contribute to 0-to-1 projects and drive alignment across teams and functions
Experience collaborating with and learning from Senior+ Engineers
Good to have
Experience with Elixir, Erlang, Scala and/or other functional programming languages
Strong understanding of RESTful API and GraphQL best practices
Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, microservices, real time streaming data and messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS
About Dataminr
At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.
Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.
As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here.
We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.
We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.
Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.
Dataminr will collect and process your personal data. All personal data will be processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please see Dataminr's candidate privacy notice available here: https://www.dataminr.com/careers/candidate-privacy-policy/. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our candidate privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact the People Team at [email protected] or [email protected].
