Lead Software Engineer, Content Ingestion

Muck Rack

Remote regions

Bulgaria UK Ireland

Salary range

$29,848–$36,241/yr

Benefits

4w PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, build, and evolve high-throughput data pipelines that ingest and transform large volumes of content.
  • Drive technical direction and ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability of ingestion systems.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Platform teams to deliver high-quality data.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with streaming technologies like Kafka and microservices.
  • Expertise with relational or search databases and making technical tradeoffs for performance and reliability.

Culture and Benefits:

  • The company operates as a fully distributed, remote-first team with a transparent and fair compensation structure.
  • It offers comprehensive health insurance, a 401(k) with employer contributions, equity opportunities, and quarterly wellness stipends.
  • Benefits include 4+ weeks of PTO, 13 paid holidays, and up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

Muck Rack

Muck Rack is a leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals that provides an AI-powered platform combining media database, monitoring, and reporting. It is a founder-controlled, fully distributed company that values resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion.

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