Software Engineer Brighton, England, United Kingdom England, United Kingdom; Rem

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.

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We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the evolution of the Brandwatch Consumer Research platform - a large-scale distributed system that transforms vast volumes of online conversations into real-time intelligence used by organisations worldwide.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership while working on complex systems spanning search, streaming data pipelines, and distributed databases.

• Design and optimise APIs and data pipelines supporting high-throughput interactive analytics (real-time search, filtering and aggregations on billions of documents).
• Build and enhance distributed systems responsible for large-scale indexing, search, and data processing.
• Drive performance, scalability, cost and reliability improvements in petabyte-scale systems.
• Tune systems to make optimal use of cloud and datacenter resources.
• Develop capabilities that enable customers to extract actionable insights from billions of documents across social and traditional media sources.
• Lead design discussions and guide cross-team technical initiatives.

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise in scalable architectures and large-volume data processing.
• Proven technical leadership and ability to influence engineering direction.
• A collaborative mindset and strong problem-solving skills

• Streaming:
  Kafka + SQS
• Infrastructure:
  Kubernetes-based hybrid environment across datacenter and AWS

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organisations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

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Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

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