Senior Data Platform Engineer

ABOUT DEFCON AI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems. In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI ’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions. If your answer to “the two records disagree” is never overwrite, this role was built for you. About the Role As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you’ll own the durable view of every resolved entity on the platform: the storage layer that holds what we know, where each fact came from, how confident we are in it, and how that picture has changed over time. When two sources disagree, both are kept with their evidence. When someone asks what we believed on a given date, and why, the platform can answer. You’ll join the analytics and AI engineering team behind a system that ingests records from dozens of disparate sources, resolves them to the right entity, highlights what analysts should review first, and provides transparent, explainable recommendations that users can trust. Operating within a secure government cloud environment, the platform depends on a storage layer that never quietly erases a disagreement between sources. Upstream matching is probabilistic. A match arrives with a confidence score rather than a yes, and the…