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As a Staff Software Developer on Coveo’s Data Platform team, you’ll tackle complex, high-impact challenges and help shape the foundations that enable teams across Coveo to build reliable data-driven and ML-driven features at scale.\nUnder the direction of the Director of Engineering, Data & ML Platform, you will combine deep technical expertise with organization-wide influence, leading strategic initiatives, defining sound engineering approaches, and bringing teams together around solutions built for the long term.\nAs our Staff Software Developer, Data Platform, you will:\nDrive large-scale, strategic data-oriented initiatives with a high degree of autonomy, from identifying opportunities and defining technical approaches through delivery across multiple teams and towards measurable outcomes.\nPartner with developers and leaders in various areas across Coveo (technical, product, legal, security) to align data governance and technical decisions with broader product and organizational objectives.\nDevelop a wide and often deep understanding of third-party offerings in the space and how they can be leveraged at Coveo.\nSolve complex and ambiguous engineering challenges, making thoughtful technical trade-offs and reducing complexity for the teams building on the platform.\nAct as a technical multiplier by mentoring developers, sharing expertise and raising engineering standards, practices and quality across teams.\nIdentify opportunities for meaningful innovation and long-term improvements in developer productivity, platform reliability, performance and maintainability.\nShape the evolution of our data platform architecture, establishing patterns and technical direction that enable secure, reliable and scalable data capabilities across Coveo.\nHere is what will qualify you for the role:\nExtensive software development expertise and a track record of designing, building and evolving complex, distributed, and data-intensive systems.\nExcellence at distilling complex information into precise concepts and relationships and turning them into explicit data schemas or APIs using a strong platform-as-a-product mindset.\nStrong architectural and technical judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate trade-offs and independently drive high-impact initiatives.\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical direction beyond your immediate team and create alignment among stakeholders with different perspectives and priorities.\nStrong interpersonal and adaptable communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts accessible to diverse audiences, foster collaboration, and help engineering teams succeed.\nWhat will make you stand out:\nDeep experience with modern data platforms, especially in the context of ML pipelines, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure or large-scale data processing.\nExperience overcoming data governance challenges.\nExperience building platforms, tools, or abstractions used across engineering teams, with a proven impact on engineering practices, system reliability, scalability, and developer experience.\nStrong technical communication skills, including experience delivering high-quality technical presentations.\nCuriosity for emerging technologies and the ability to translate innovative ideas into practical solutions that deliver measurable, long-term value.\nDo you think you can bring this role to life? 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