Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer
Core
Technical anchor for the data platform leading design of data democratization strategy, bridging architectural vision with production-grade engineering for ingestion pipelines, medallion lakehouse, and semantic layer.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer (hands-on IC with design leadership)
Builds
Scalable, governed data platforms, ingestion pipelines, medallion lakehouse, semantic layer, and data products for reporting
Domain
Cloud-native data engineering, data platform modernization, and data democratization
Required skills
Hands-on data engineering (streaming/batch), medallion architecture, open table formats, data governance, metadata management, data contracts, semantic layer design, cloud-native infrastructure, AI-assisted development
Preferred skills
Domain-driven design, event-driven systems, reusable abstractions, data quality observability, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps
Technologies
AWS (S3, Glue, Lake Formation), Apache Iceberg, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Debezium, Airflow, DataHub, GitHub Actions, Cursor
Responsibilities
Design and build platform capabilities for end-to-end data flow from source to reporting; Lead medallion architecture implementation on AWS lakehouse; Make pipelines configuration and metadata-driven; Ensure data products are registered, documented, and discoverable; Design data product and semantic layer contracts; Build internal AI-assisted developer tooling; Collaborate on technical strategy and architectural reviews; Provide mentorship to developers
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with design leadership
