Senior Software Engineer - Unified Orchestration

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing. Senior Software Engineer - Unified Orchestration Why We Have This Role Qualtrics processes hundreds of millions of unstructured customer text data points, and our Unified Orchestration team—spanning ML Topics and XM Pipeline—builds the core backend infrastructure that classifies and routes these documents through our enrichment systems. In this role, you will help run, scale, and improve high-throughput, high-availability production systems, collaborating closely with science, product, and data platform teams. You will evaluate state-of-the-art model and pipeline advancements alongside science and product partners, then take ownership of transitioning those selected innovations safely into production. How You'll Find Success • Taking end-to-end ownership of backend features, from initial scoping and architecture through to production release and ongoing operational support. • Leading projects by coordinating contributors across cross-functional partners like science, product, and data platform. • Rigorously inspecting and reviewing agentically generated code using independent checks to ensure system safety and production readiness. • Leveraging operational signals, logs, and metrics to identify errors, eliminate bottlenecks, and prevent dropped documents in distributed workflows. • Showing high learning agility to adapt to the team's tech stack (such as Go, TypeScript, Temporal, or Kubernetes) without requiring exact prior matches. • Applying sound operational judgment and decisive problem-solving when handling on-call rotations, customer escalations, and SEV events. How You'll Grow • Step into project leadership and feature-lead responsibilities at the senior level. • Build hands-on expertise in conducting model, LLM, and pipeline experiments in production alongside applied science teams. • Deepen your mastery of high-throughput, high-availability distributed systems and modern orchestration patterns. • Drive less-defined, highly innovative initiatives—such as automated topic recommendations or combining rules-based and LLM-based classification models. Things You'll Do • Optimize Classification & AI ROI: Evaluate topic classification models by comparing production performance, computational cost, quality, and customer experience, then deploy winning experiments. • Strengthen Pipeline Architecture: Design, build, and maintain high-throughput backend workflows that seamlessly segment and route documents to various enrichment services. • Enhance System Observability: Implement advanced telemetry and monitoring to catch system errors early, maintain high processing throughput, and eliminate dropped documents. • Expand Platform Capabilities: Partner with data platform a