Staff Software Engineer

Own and modernize a mission critical AI driven data platform, delivering scalable, reliable, and future ready solutions for Moody's data estate. Critical AI driven data platform, delivering scalable, reliable, and future ready solutions for Moody's data estate.

• Take full technical ownership of PD Deliver, a mission critical platform that automates ingestion, filtering, and delivery of high value unstructured financial data (news and filings)Deliver critical platform that automates ingestion, filtering, and delivery of high value unstructured financial data (news and filings)
• Ensure continuity, stability, and performance of the platform while leading its modernization and architectural evolution
• Partner closely with business users (e.g., M&A, cross border investment, ratings, and filings teams) to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions border investment, ratings, and filings teams) to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions
• Design, maintain, and evolve real-time data pipelines and streaming workflows, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and low latency time data pipelines
• Refactor and rebuild legacy components as needed, improving maintainability, reliability, and extensibility
• Lead infrastructure assessment and cloud migration planning, including dependency untangling, risk mitigation, and phased execution
• Integrate machine learning and generative AI capabilities to enhance filtering, clustering, enrichment, and content relevance
• Build and maintain feedback mechanisms that continuously improve model performance based on user interaction
• Ensure high availability, redundancy, monitoring, and failover for a business-critical production system critical production system
• Produce clear technical documentation and architectural artifacts to prevent knowledge silos and support long-term sustainability term sustainability
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, supporting junior engineers and collaborating across distributed teams
• Autonomy: Operate with a high degree of independence as a senior individual contributor, owning design, implementation, and delivery decisions.

About the team

The Data Estate Enrichment team is responsible for transforming largescale unstructured data into trusted, actionable insights across Moody's. The team combines advanced software engineering, data pipelines, and AI/ML techniques to enrich and distribute content used by hundreds of internal stakeholders globally. By joining this team, you will play a pivotal role in modernizing a high visibility platform at the intersection of data, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, helping shape Moody's next generation of data and agentic AI capabilities.visibility platform at the intersection of generation data and agentic AI capabilities.

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody's Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.

Do you have experience in Python?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Senior-level software engineering expertise in distributed, streaming, and data-intensive systems

• Strong hands-on experience with production-critical platforms, including system ownership and modernization
• Proficiency in C/C++ for legacy systems and Python (or similar) for modern service development
• Deep understanding of real-time data pipelines, event streaming, and workflow automation
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred; GCP experience beneficial)
• Strong architectural judgment, stakeholder communication skills, and end-to-end ownership mindset, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). Advanced degree preferred but not required.

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today's risks into tomorrow's opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are-with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody's is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we're advancing AI to move from insight to action-enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.