Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data

About Juniper Square Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We’re the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we’ve built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we’re reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we’re building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come. Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you’re energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, come join us! Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time. About your role We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the transformation of our current data engineering and analytics function into a modern, scalable, product-oriented Data Platform organization. You will define the vision, architecture, operating model, and execution roadmap required to evolve from project-based data delivery to a platform that enables self-service, reliable, governed, and analytics-ready data across the company. This is a deeply hands-on leadership role for a technical expert who actively designs systems, prototypes solutions, reviews code, and guides teams through complex challenges. You will modernize our data stack, establish platform standards, introduce best practices for reliability and governance, and enable teams across the business to build data products efficiently and safely. In addition to platform transformation, you will ensure the data ecosystem delivers high-quality analytics and actionable insights. You will define architecture across ingestion, processing, modeling, semantic layers, analytics, and AI/ML enablement, ensuring data is trustworthy, accessible, secure, and performant. You will work closely with engineering leadership, product teams, analytics, and executive stakeholders to align technology strategy with business outcomes, mentor engineers, and build a data-driven culture. Success in this role means not only delivering a modern platform but also elevating the team’s capabilities, processes, and ways of working to operate as a true Data Platform organization. What you’ll do Architecture & Technical Leadership • Define and own the end-to-end data and analytics architecture strategy • Design scalable batch, streaming, and real-time data systems • Establish standards for data modeling, semantic layers, and reporting • Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making • Drive adoption of modern ar