Senior Data Ingestion Engineer - Remote in Salford

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes.

We’re looking for a collaborative, self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Content Ingestion team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help design and evolve the systems that ingest, process, and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured, high-quality data. You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across Product, Search, Data Science, and Platform to build scalable, reliable data pipelines that power core platform experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines that ingest and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured and enriched datasets.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of ingestion systems, improving scalability, reliability, and maintainability over time.
• Improve data quality, correctness, and enrichment workflows to support downstream systems such as Search and Data Science.
• Build and operate distributed, event-driven systems and streaming pipelines with strong observability and fault tolerance.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Search, and Platform teams to deliver high-quality data that powers customer-facing features.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, balancing speed of delivery with system reliability and long-term maintainability.
• Support and mentor teammates through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.

To Be Set Up for Success in This Role, You’ll Need to Have

• ~5–8 years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend programming language.
• Experience building and maintaining reliable, observable, and scalable services or microservices.
• Experience working with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, or similar systems.
• Experience with APIs and service communication patterns such as gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Experience working with large-scale data systems or high-throughput SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with relational or search databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
• Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, and maintainability.

If Any of the Below Also Describe You, This Could Be an Exciting Opportunity

• Experience working on content ingestion, ETL/ELT, or data enrichment pipelines.
• Experience improving throughput, reliability, and observability in large-scale data systems.
• Experience with background job processing frameworks and asynchronous workflows.
• Experience working with high-volume event streams or large datasets.
• Interest in journalism, media, or the technology that supports those industries.

In Addition, We’re Always Looking for Candidates Who

• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Take ownership of their work and proactively identify and solve problems.
• Contribute to a collaborative and supportive engineering culture through thoughtful feedback.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that scales over time.
• Balance pragmatism with long-term thinking when making technical decisions.
• Continuously learn and adapt in a fast-evolving technical environment.
• Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery.

Interview Overview

Here’s what you can expect from our process. We’ll keep you informed at every step and let you know if anything changes along the way.

• Intro call with a member of our Talent Team.
• A video interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Peer interviews, including a 1 hour peer code interview.
• Final conversation(s) with member(s) of our executive team.

Location Preferences

We are currently prioritising candidates based in Bulgaria. Qualified candidates located in the United Kingdom and Ireland are also encouraged to apply.

Travel & Team Engagement Expectations

This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.

Salary

The anticipated salary range for this role in Bulgaria is €28,000 – 34,000+ annually, depending on experience. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

Why Muck Rack?

• Remote Work, Forever: Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup.
• Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership.
• Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions).
• Transparent & Fair Compensation: Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment.
• Standardized bonus or commission structure.
• 401(k) with employer contributions.
• Equity opportunities.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents.
• 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans.
• 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program.
• Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits.
• Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription.
• Time Off & Family Benefits: 4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days.
• 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days.
• Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Learning and Development: Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion.
• Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training.
• Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly.
• 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development.

Muck Rack considers applicants for all positions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, familial status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.