Senior Developer - AI Engineer
Bright DataSenior Software Engineer, AI Products
We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with experience in building AI based products to join our Bright Insights Business Unit. You'll play a crucial role in building AI-powered features that turn our digital shelf and market share data into actionable insights, working alongside a talented and passionate team.
Bright Insights offers actionable ecommerce data analysis for retailers, analysts, and investors: https://brightdata.com/products/insights
Responsibilities
- End-to-end feature development for AI-powered analytics on rich datasets, from architecture to production.
- Mentor teammates and partner with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver reliable conversational flows.
- Design secure, low-latency data retrieval and AI integration pipelines (function calling, agentic workflows, etc.) for internal datasets and APIs.
- Build and scale integrations to data sources—defining schemas, queries, and caching strategies; continuously improve backend components to deliver a top-notch user experience with efficient resource trade-offs.
- Establish quality guardrails, automated tests/evaluations, and observability; optimize for scalability, performance, and cost; run A/B tests.
- Optimize context engineering and data retrieval strategies—balancing relevance, latency, and token efficiency to deliver accurate AI-powered insights.
Requirements
- Experience: 6+ years in software development, including 3+ years with Python; experience with .NET C# or Java.
- LLM systems: Practical experience with LLM-based systems: prompt engineering, context optimization, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, embeddings, and vector databases.
- Backend: Experience building APIs and microservices; strong software design, testing, and debugging skills.
- Frontend: Front-end development in JavaScript and React; experience with data visualization/charting is an advantage.
- Data: Understanding of data retrieval optimizations, caching strategies, and query performance tuning; solid understanding of SQL and data modeling; familiarity with NoSQL technologies.
- Cloud & DevOps: Work experience in a cloud environment, preferably AWS; CI/CD, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and monitoring/observability.
- Track record: Proven track record delivering reliable, low-latency, cost-efficient production systems.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills in English.
About Bright Data
Bright Data operates a web data collection platform that helps businesses access, extract, and structure publicly available web data at scale. Its offerings include proxy networks, web scraping APIs and tools, ready-to-use and custom datasets, and a company data API, alongside ecommerce data analytics through its Bright Insights business unit. The company was formerly known as Luminati Networks before rebranding to Bright Data.
Interested in this role?
Apply now to join Bright Data.