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Senior Platform Engineer, Data Platform
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$145K - $190K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer, Data Platform
Istari
• Design, build, and maintain services governing user controls, identity, and security across the data platform. • Build and harden secure content sharing capabilities, ensuring data is accessible to the right users under the right conditions. • Contribute to internal reporting and analytics tooling that surfaces platform data to internal and external users. • Work on Dgraph internals as needed, alongside building services and applications on top of Dgraph. • Partner with platform, integrations, and infra teams to ensure identity and security primitives are consistent across the broader ecosystem. • Drive decisions on data access patterns, permissions models, and secure sharing architecture. • Write high-quality, well-tested code in Go and Python, with an eye toward reliability, security, and performance. • Participate in design reviews and contribute to technical direction for the data platform.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time in backend/platform engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python.
- Experience building systems related to identity, access control, permissions, or security — you understand the tradeoffs involved in building secure, scalable systems.
- Comfortable working across the stack, with a preference and strength for backend/services work.
- Experience with graph databases (Dgraph or similar) is a strong plus; interest in working on database internals is a plus.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with platform and infra teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Must be a US citizen or permanent resident living within the United States.
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits package
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