Lead Software Development Engineer

The Role

At Amperity, engineers work in small, collaborative feature teams. As an SDE IV, you'll contribute across teams that move quickly, embracing rapid, iterative development to solve meaningful customer problems and improve the platform. Engineers are involved in shaping what we build and how we build it, working with Product, Support, Customer Success, and Go-to-Market teams to create high-impact features and seamless customer experiences. We keep our processes lightweight, our communication clear, and our focus on delivering value.

As one of the first teammates building our footprint in Argentina, you’ll play a meaningful role in our growth and be part of shaping this new chapter from the beginning.

Interesting Problems

• Ingest and understand large amounts of structured customer, product, and event data
• Create probabilistic knowledge graphs by training ML models to unify this data across different systems
• Take research algorithms and realize them in production for extremely high-scale usage
• Build visual experiences and toolset to help users visualize their data, understand their customers and surface the most impactful insights
• Integrate our system into the operating core of the businesses we serve
• Automate the management of thousands of VMs running data processing jobs

About You

• 12+ years industry experience working in SaaS and distributed systems environments
• Experience working with large-scale data-oriented systems on a major cloud provider
• You show deep technical judgment, expanding to the depths of your team's technology ownership. You impart this judgment on others and are sought for advice on all aspects of your team's product, process, and technology.
• You can guide architectural decisions on your team and across teams with an eye to high-level tradeoffs, and know when and how to explore novel approaches. You are a backstop for oncall issues on your team.
• Passionate about building scalable infrastructure systems for both internal and external customers
• Excited about using functional languages (like Clojure!) in a production environment - Clojure or functional language experience isn't required
• You educate those outside your team on your team's technology and products. You mentor those on your team and contribute to their growth. You take opportunities to share your unique talents and interests across the whole engineering team in the form of