Senior Software Engineer, Foundations

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

San Francisco, CA / Washington, DC / NYCBacked by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country - from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta - empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We're motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we're creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive.We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We're just getting started.TeamAs an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves.The Foundations team consists of detail-oriented engineers who drive innovation, enhance performance through technical excellence, and focus on results. We own the performance of Peregrine's mission-critical infrastructure as well as the high-risk, platform-spanning initiatives that create unmatched new capabilities.We value both ownership and collaboration-you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion. We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions-you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision.RoleWe are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have vast ownership across our stacks, making decisions that will have an outsized impact for years to come.You'll push the boundaries of what a data platform can do by creating novel capabilities that span the platform and optimizing subsystems to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in performance. You will work on projects such as re-architecting our Elasticsearch cluster, taking response times from seconds to milliseconds; and owning other strategic initiatives that deliver industry-leading platform performance and capabilities.Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure.About you

• Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
• Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software componentsWhat we look for
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
  • Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and/or in the open-source community
  • Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
  • Strong understanding of product development and navigating large codebases
  • San Francisco or Washington DC based candidates strongly preferred (hybrid work is acceptable)Salary Range: $130,000 - $250,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Apply for this job* indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *PhoneResume/CV *LinkedIn ProfileGithub ProfileAre you legally authorized to work in the United States? * Select...Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship? * Select...If you're not based in San Francisco, NYC or D.C., would you be open to relocation? * Select...
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