Staff Data Engineer - US (Remote)

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, we're a Series C company that has hit $100M in annual recurring revenue. More than 90,000 real estate professionals, including over 30% of the WSJ Real Trends top 100 agents in the United States, use us to run and grow their business. About the Role We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to strengthen our real estate MLS data platform squad. You will build robust data pipelines and backend services that power: • High-quality MLS and property data across 400+ feeds • Property discovery and search on agent websites • Personalized listing recommendations and other data-driven features • Conversational and operational AI agents that streamline internal workflows • The evaluation and monitoring infrastructure that keeps these systems improving over time This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, data infrastructure, and AI-powered products. Who is the Data Platform Squad? We make sure clean, reliable MLS listing records and user click-stream data are always available to our products and customers. Our current team—a mix of data engineers and software engineers—owns the entire listing pipeline: ingestion, transformation, and normalization across 400+ MLS feeds and other sources. We also extend the platform to capture user-activity data for user-facing features such as personalized listing recommendations, and we build AI agents that automate feed onboarding and listing-issue triage, reducing manual effort for internal teams and clients and shortening the path from data to business impact. What You’ll Do Technical leadership & architecture • Own the end-to-end architecture for MLS and property data: streaming and batch pipelines, microservices, storage layers, and APIs • Design and evolve event-driven, Kafka-based data flows that power listing ingestion, enrichment, recommendations, and AI use cases • Drive technical design reviews, set engineering best practices, and make high-quality tradeoffs around reliability, performance, and cost Backend, data & platform engineering • Design, build, and operate backend services (Python or Java) that expose listing, property, and recommendation data via robust APIs and microservices • Implement scalable data processing with Spark or Flink on EMR (or similar), orchestrated via Airflow and running on Kubernetes where applicable • Champion observability (metrics, tracing, logging) and operational excellence (alerting, runbooks, SLOs, on-call participation) for data and backend services Streaming & batch data pipelines • Build and maintain high-volume, schema-evolving streaming and batch pipelines that ingest and normalize MLS and third-party data • Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance are built into the platform from the start—supporting analytics, AI/ML, and customer-facing features • Partner with analytics engineering and data science to make data discoverable and usable (e.g., semantic layers, documentation, self-service tooling) AI agents & data products • Collaborate with ML/AI engineers to design and scale AI agents that automate MLS feed onboarding, listing discrepancy triage, and other operational workflows • Work with frameworks such as PydanticAI, LangChain, or similar to integrate LLM-based agents into our data and service architecture • Help define and implement evaluation, logging, and feedback loops so these agents and data-driven products continuously improve Cross-functional impact & mentorship • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to shape the roadmap for our data platform, MLS capabilities, and AI-powered experiences • Translate ambiguous business and customer problems into clear technical strategies and phased delivery plans • Mentor and unblock other engineers; elevate the overall level of technical decision-making on the team via pairing, reviews, and design guidance What You’ll Bring Experience & sc