Senior Software Engineer - Platform & AI Enablement

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At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Team Description

You’ll join the Platform & AI Enablement team within our GPTO Engineering organization, reporting to the Sr. Director Engineering API. The team is responsible for building and supporting the data and AI platforms that underpin our industry-leading Business Planning Software solutions. This is a highly hands-on role focused on designing, building, and operating scalable systems that integrate event-driven, batch & streaming data flows, and AI capabilities into the platform.

Your Impact

• Build and maintain core platform capabilities that support high-throughput batch, streaming, and AI-powered workloads.
• Develop resilient, observable, and scalable systems using Apache Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, and cloud-native tools.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to operationalize models and enable generative AI use cases such as prompt-based insights or automation.
• Deliver reliable integrations with data lakes, event stores, and analytics systems, ensuring data flows efficiently across the business planning ecosystem.
• Contribute full-stack code where needed, including React-based frontends and backend services in Java and Python.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with an emphasis on performance and reliability in production environments.
• Actively participate in design reviews, technical discussions, and pair programming to promote strong engineering practices.
• Own technical deliverables across sprint cycles and collaborate closely with teams across time zones.

Your Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience (or equivalent) with deep experience in platform/backend systems.
• Expert-level skills in Java, with strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience building distributed data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Flink, and Pulsar.
• Familiarity with data lakes and scalable data storage patterns.
• Demonstrated experience integrating with AI/ML models, including LLMs and prompt-based applications.
• Proven capability in fullstack development, especially using React, and in cloud-agnostic infrastructure environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, feature branching, and release automation.
• Comfortable balancing fast-paced delivery with high-quality, resilient, observable systems.
• Experience working in international teams and supporting production environments.

Preferred Skills

• Help define the future of a data platform at scale
• Work on cutting-edge AI/ML enablement initiatives
• Collaborate with high-caliber teams across data, engineering, and product
• Influence long-term technology strategy in a high-growth environment

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Anaplan does not extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication. All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address.