Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we into the enterprise and internationally.

Team

As 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.

We are looking for a Data Governance Engineer to join our core engineering teams. Our teams tackle a range of challenges, from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points.

The Data Governance team builds services, systems, and product features to help our customers govern all their data assets through the full lifecycle within Peregrine. We provide fine-grained, secure data access, and auditability controls.

Role

We are looking for a software engineer to join our growing team where you will have vast ownership across our stack. You will take an active role in architecting and building the next version of our core access control and governance systems that govern access to over 7 billion data points within Peregrine’s multi-tenant data platform. Features will span fine-grained permissions, auditability, policy enforcement, metadata management, data labeling & compliance across the platform.

You will work closely with Product Managers to drive projects from idea formulation to design and implementation. You will design and build data governance features, making thoughtful trade-offs to create systems that strike the right balance between security and usability.

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

Build scalable, secure-by-default frameworks that are foundational to our infrastructure, ensuring first-in-class data security

Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components within the data governance domain

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

Grow engineering talent through hands-on mentorship while fostering strong security values

What we look for

10+ years of experience architecting and maintaining distributed data systems and cloud-based platforms

Deep knowledge across areas that include: data governance, access controls and platform auditability

Strong development background in technologies and languages that include Python

Proven success coaching and developing senior engineers

Demonstrated ability in technical execution and leadership

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work on-site at our San Francisco or New York office

Salary Range: $200,000 - $275,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)