Senior Software Engineer - Core AI

Required

• 4+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development experience in Python; familiarity with other languages such as Java, TypeScript, or Go is a plus.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines or distributed data systems (e.g. ETL/ELT, event-driven architectures, SQS/Kafka, S3-based data lakes).
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services; hands-on experience with SageMaker, DataZone, Lake Formation, Glue, or similar data/ML platform services is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. AWS CDK).
• Familiarity with different database technologies across SQL and NoSQL options.
• Experience with professional software engineering practices such as unit testing, code reviews, and writing design documents.
• Experience owning deployment and operations for large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field, or suitable industry experience.
• What You Should Know About This Team
• The Socrates Experimentation Platform (SEP) team is the foundational AI infrastructure team within Qualtrics Core AI Product Unit. We own the data mesh, ML platform, and self-service tooling that applied scientists and ML engineers across Qualtrics depend on.
• Our platform is built around AWS SageMaker Unified Studio and implements a governed medallion data architecture, ensuring high-quality, legally-compliant, and discoverable datasets for AI development.