About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform) and play a key role in designing, building, and managing the platform and infrastructure that powers robust data pipelines and analytic query engines. You will have the opportunity to take ownership of various aspects of our backend from day one, establish engineering best practices, and identify innovative approaches to deliver outstanding value to our users. Your engineering knowledge will be applied by designing top-notch architectures, offering insightful feedback on technical designs, solving difficult problems, and conducting thorough code reviews.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data platform infrastructure, implementing and optimizing analytic query engines.
Collaborate closely with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to ensure effective integration, schema detection, and schema evolution.
Proactively identify opportunities to enhance platform scalability, efficiency, and reliability, and implement best practices for data modeling and pipeline strategies.
Strong skills in Python and experience with modern infrastructure automation tools
Proficiency with cloud-based platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
Solid foundation in automated schema detection, observability, and performance optimization
A proactive and collaborative mindset, comfortable working independently and within fast-paced teams
Strong communication skills, able to articulate platform design concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Excellent problem-solving abilities, particularly in complex data scenarios requiring performance tuning and scalability solutions
Deep experience with analytic query engines and platforms such as Trino (Presto), Redshift, BigQuery, and Apache Iceberg
Expertise in designing platforms supporting Medalion architecture, star schemas, and schema evolution
Must be a US citizen or Green Card holder
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
Demonstrated ability to align platform engineering strategies closely with strategic business objectives
Proven expertise in advanced query optimization, database scaling, and platform architecture
Extensive experience in developing highly observable and scalable data platforms
8+ years of experience in data platform engineering or related roles focusing on infrastructure and data management.

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