# Senior Software Engineer, Data Processing at Protege

- Company: Protege
- What the company does: Protege is the trusted source for AI-ready, real world data and expertise at every stage of the AI lifecycle. Backed by a16z and CRV.
- Company website: https://withprotege.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/74a9d6fb-b2de-4110-a775-22605e922110
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/protege-senior-software-engineer-data-processing/

## About the role

We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years building and operating production backend or data systems, with real experience in data processing at scale
- Hands-on experience designing and running large-scale data pipelines
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience with distributed data processing
- Strong proficiency with AWS
- Comfort with messy, varied, high-volume data and high ambiguity, with a knack for finding patterns in complex environments

Tags: Engineering