Staff Data Platform Engineer

MSZ Systems is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Platform & Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy a large-scale candidate sourcing and talent intelligence platform. You will work across engineering and recruiting teams to turn real sourcing problems into production data, search, and AI solutions.
Responsibilities
Integrate People Data Labs (PDL) and other approved people/company data providers.
Build ETL/ELT pipelines and APIs for millions of professional profiles.
Normalize, enrich, deduplicate, and merge candidate records.
Build identity resolution, fuzzy matching, confidence scoring, and provenance tracking.
Implement Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, semantic search, embeddings, and AI-assisted ranking.
Work directly with recruiters and business users to understand sourcing problems and rapidly deliver solutions.
Deploy and customize search, ranking, enrichment, and workflow capabilities for different use cases.
Integrate with ATS/CRM platforms such as CEIPAL, Bullhorn, Greenhouse, or similar.
Handle rate limits, queues, caching, retries, monitoring, and incremental refresh.
Required Skills
Strong Python, SQL, REST APIs, ETL/ELT
PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
Large-scale API/data integrations
Entity resolution and deduplication
AWS/Azure/GCP
Docker, Redis, Kafka/SQS
Strong customer-facing and problem-solving skills
Preferred
PDL or similar people-data APIs
Talent intelligence or recruiting technology
Vector search, embeddings, LLMs, and semantic search
Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or customer-facing engineering role

Work arrangement
Yes