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Staff Engineer, Data Platform

Toronto💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building the end-to-end technical ecosystem to discover, acquire, normalize, and serve fragmented public-sector government data for businesses selling to government.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Data Platform

Builds

Proprietary data advantage by connecting millions of sources across 110,000+ US state/local agencies, federal data, and eventually global public-sector information.

Domain

Public sector data aggregation, government information infrastructure, applied AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Go, SQL, distributed data systems, data modeling, entity resolution, knowledge graphs, LLMs and agents, document processing, system architecture

Preferred skills

alternative data, quantitative research infrastructure, search and crawling, AI data infrastructure, large-scale document processing, data aggregation

Technologies

PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, LLMs, agents, proprietary models

Responsibilities

Design systems spanning discovery, acquisition, extraction, normalization, validation, storage, serving, and monitoring; map the world of government data; build systems for messy real-world data; use AI to rethink the traditional data stack; set technical direction for data acquisition and representation.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with architectural ownership

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