Senior Software Engineer at muckrack

Compensation

€28,000 – €34,000/yr

Setup: Remote
Location: Plovdiv, Plovdiv
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Posted: May 20, 2026

Description

Muck Rack is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Content Ingestion team. The successful candidate will design and evolve systems that ingest, process, and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured, high-quality data. They will collaborate with various teams to build scalable, reliable data pipelines and contribute to improving data quality and enrichment workflows.

Required Skills

Python
Kafka
Kinesis
gRPC
Protocol Buffers
MySQL
Postgres
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: ~5–8 years of professional experience as a software engineer
Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures
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
Preferred Qualifications: 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