Job Closed
This listing is no longer active.
BEAM IT. STREAM IT. We're doubling down with two ways to watch what you love. Welcome to the new DIRECTV.
Principal – Platform Engineering
Location
California
Posted
61 days ago
Salary
$189.9K - $244.0K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal – Platform Engineering
DIRECTV
• Design, develop, and optimize data solutions within large-scale databases and big data ecosystems • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement data architecture strategies • Manage and optimize data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data integration processes • Engage in complex enterprise-wide data projects by defining technical requirements, designing data models, implementing performance tuning strategies, and ensuring data quality and consistency • Develop and enforce best practices for database management, indexing, partitioning, and query optimization • Utilize Hadoop, HDFS, and Amazon Web Services in application architecture designs
Job Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a related occupation
- Proficiency in Hadoop, HDFS, and Amazon Web Services
- Experience performing application architecture designs, reviews, consulting as needed for development team
- Ability to define processes and procedures to improve the productivity of the development team
- Experience in meeting with management at all levels to receive requirements, design technical approaches and develop solutions
- Knowledge in working on application and system configuration, reliability, recoverability, performance, and the installation, maintenance, and upgrade of big data applications, systems, and related components.
Benefits
- health insurance
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off
- discounts on products and services
Related Guides
Related Categories
Related Job Pages
More Platform Engineer Jobs
Platform Engineer
Advancing AnalyticsYour friendly global Data & AI Experts! We're an Elite-Tier Databricks Consulting Partner with Azure & AWS Specialisms.
• Support the roll out and maintenance of a large, federated, multi-service Data and AI platform • Focus on building secure, scalable, and cost-optimised cloud infrastructure • Implement governance and enable advanced data services
Senior Platform Engineer
Lillio (formerly HiMama)Child care app for superstar centers. We're hiring! Check out our open roles at https://www.himama.com/careers
• Drive technical decisions regarding infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform architecture to ensure long-term scalability. • Lead the charge on system reliability and performance. • Develop and support internal team tooling • Troubleshoot, debug and resolve issues as part of a shared on-call rotation. You take an active role in ensuring the operational health and stability of the system as a whole. • Mentor and support your peers, including through compassionate code review.
• Designing, building, and operating scalable infrastructure and tools to support over 1 billion monthly requests, ensuring performance, availability, and resilience • Help with configuration, unblocking the occasional stuck deployment and enable teams to manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling across a highly dynamic environment • Collaborating closely with engineering teams and technical leadership to improve reliability, system performance, and deployment velocity • Continuously monitoring, testing, and improving our systems to meet fast-growing operational demands, with a focus on automation and observability • Contributing to infrastructure design decisions and building reusable, modular infrastructure components using Terraform • Actively sharing knowledge, improving engineering practices, and elevating the team’s engineering culture
• Design and evolve secure, scalable Azure platforms that align infrastructure with .NET microservices, CQRS, and event-driven architectures. • Lead CI/CD implementations using Azure DevOps and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code standards (Bicep/Terraform). • Implement and operate Azure services, including Container Apps, Azure SQL, Service Bus, and networking. • Apply security-by-design principles and support governance and FinOps practices. • Implement monitoring and distributed tracing (Application Insights, OpenTelemetry) and support service-level objectives (SLOs). • Act as a technical reference across teams: collaborate with engineering groups, mentor engineers, and promote platform best practices.
