Senior Data Platform Engineer - Zonda - Toronto, ON
CoStar Group2 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own Data DevOps frameworks, standards, schema versioning, migration workflows, deployment validation, environment promotion, and rollback across Snowflake and AWS Aurora/RDS.
- Implement Snowflake CI/CD and database deployment automation using schemachange or equivalent tooling and automate Aurora/RDS migrations using Flyway or equivalent tools.
- Establish reusable CI/CD patterns and quality gates for dbt and Apache Airflow/Amazon MWAA workloads.
- Build Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, deployment, configuration, and environment-provisioning capabilities across AWS Glue, S3, EKS, MWAA, DataHub, and Grafana.
- Manage Kubernetes-based data-platform services and automate secrets, access controls, configuration, and infrastructure promotion.
- Own monitoring, observability, alerts, runbooks, service-health measures, rollback, disaster recovery, and environment-recreation automation for shared data-platform services.
- Implement least-privilege access, service identities, secrets management, auditability, and governance integrations with Security and Infrastructure teams.
- Build reusable platform templates, modules, standards, and tooling; lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve reliability, performance, and cloud cost efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college.
- At least 7 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Production experience building and operating data platforms, including hands-on Snowflake schema management, security, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
- Experience implementing database schema versioning and automated migration frameworks, with Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic, or equivalent tooling.
- Experience implementing Snowflake CI/CD and schema deployment with schemachange or an equivalent approach.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD, and AWS data-platform experience including Aurora/RDS, S3, and Glue.
- Experience with dbt, Apache Airflow, preferably Amazon MWAA, Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS, and deployment tooling such as Helm.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana and CloudWatch.
- Strong scripting or software-development skills, preferably Python.
- Strong understanding of data-platform reliability, security, deployment safety, backup, recovery, and production operations.
- Preferred experience includes DataHub or similar metadata/catalog platforms, advanced Snowflake security and governance, data-quality frameworks, drift detection, AWS Secrets Manager, advanced IAM, disaster recovery, FinOps, and production SRE or on-call work.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex platform problems from design through production and a track record of commitment to prior employers.
Benefits
- Base compensation is CAD $140,000-$170,000 annually.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, prescription drug, life, legal, and supplementary insurance coverage.
- Virtual and in-person mental health counseling services for individuals and families.
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions, employee stock purchase plan, and paid time off.
- Tuition reimbursement, internal training, commuter and parking benefits, and fitness center benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups, complimentary beverages and healthy snacks, and a collaborative workplace.
- Applicants must currently be eligible to work full-time in Canada; the employer does not provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About CoStar Group
CoStar Group builds subscription databases, analytics, and online marketplaces for commercial and residential real estate professionals, investors, and advertisers. Its portfolio includes CoStar (research and data), LoopNet (commercial listings), and Apartments.com (rental listings), generating revenue from subscriptions, listings, and advertising. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CSGP) and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with inclusion in the S&P 500 index.