Staff Software Engineer

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. Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow. Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you. 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. What You'll Do 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.