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 skillsPreferred
• 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