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Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations

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Remote, United States
Senior

Base Salary

$166k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive multi-year architecture roadmaps for data ingestion and processing infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end platform initiatives from design to production rollout.
  • Partner with vendors for technical integration and infrastructure investment decisions.
  • Embed governance and compliance controls into platform architecture.
  • Optimize infrastructure spend and manage multi-million dollar budgets.
  • Write architecture documents and proposals to align with stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a strong engineering culture.
  • Collaborate with various teams to meet evolving platform needs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Experience with modern data lakehouse architectures and open table formats.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed query and compute systems.
  • Proven depth in event-driven infrastructure using Kafka and Flink.
  • Track record of executing major platform transitions under production constraints.
  • Experience building business cases for infrastructure investments.
  • Exceptional written technical communication skills.
  • Strong ownership and ability to drive large initiatives in ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements allowing remote work from various locations.
  • Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkClickHouseDatabricksdbtPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflake

Categories

AI & MLData EngineeringData Science