Senior Data Platform Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
171 days ago
Salary
$180K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Inspiren
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, ML, data engineering, and product analytics teams to understand and shape the future needs of our data platform and infrastructure. • Define, drive, and implement the future live ingestion layer of data into our data platform (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis). • Define and evolve standards for storage, compute, data management, provenance, and orchestration. • Monitor current and forecast future infrastructure needs and costs based on business requirements. • Implement and manage role-based access management. • Design and implement reusable tooling and frameworks for data consumers (e.g., data quality monitoring frameworks, templated pipelines, foolproof backfilling capabilities).
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure, platform engineering, data engineering, or similar.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Databricks. AWS experience is a plus but not required.
- Expertise in modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures.
- Expertise in modern ETL technologies and building and supporting data pipelines at scale.
- Familiarity with access control, data governance, and security.
- Demonstrated experience of reliability, observability, and monitoring of infrastructure and systems.
- Experience building and maintaining data platforms with a wide variety of stakeholders/users with a diversity of technical expertises.
- Demonstrated ability to scale cloud-based data workloads, whilst optimizing and monitoring cost.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapting to changing priorities.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- Flexible PTO
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