Software Engineer, Data Platform
Company: profound
Location: New York, New York
Salary: $140k - $260k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-22
About this role
Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.
Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us.
Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence. We are looking for a Software Engineer, Data Platform to design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers data across our organization.
You will architect scalable platforms and develop tools and frameworks that enable data scientists, analytics engineers, and machine learning engineers, while building the foundation for analytics, experimentation, and ML-powered features. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building robust systems, solving complex technical challenges, and enabling teams through great platform design.
### What you’ll do
- Design and build platform infrastructure that supports machine learning, analytics, and software engineers, as well as data scientists across the company
- Develop tools and frameworks for data ingestion, transformation, quality, and observability
- Architect scalable, reliable systems using Snowflake, Clickhouse, AWS, dbt, and Dagster
- Build governance, access control, and data quality systems that scale with the organization
- Enable MLOps by creating infrastructure that supports model development and productionization
- Drive technical decisions around platform a...