Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform
Pantheon Systems, Inc2 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Extend the configuration-driven data platform to surface insights in the product experience and power ML and LLM-driven insights.
- Architect and enhance Ingest as a Service, Curation as a Service, and Retention as a Service.
- Build and operate data infrastructure using Snowflake, Snowpark for Python, Google Cloud Platform, Airflow, Docker, and Terraform.
- Guide engineers on high-impact projects and raise technical standards across the team.
- Own development, testing, deployment, operations, and support for the systems built.
- Partner with Product, Sales, Operations, Finance, and other teams to deliver data solutions and promote self-service data use.
- Participate in the Data team’s on-call rotation to support infrastructure stability, reliability, and performance.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building production data systems, including large-volume pipelines, cloud databases, and real-time data events.
- Deep understanding of distributed data processing, throughput and latency trade-offs, data modeling, data architecture, governance, catalogs, and observability.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting direction, making architecture decisions, translating ambiguity into designs, and mentoring engineers.
- Strong hands-on Python, specifically Python 3, experience.
- Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Firebolt, or Redshift.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or a comparable cloud environment, containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Familiarity with configuration-driven pipeline design, Airflow, and CI/CD for data workflows.
- Experience building or supporting infrastructure for Machine Learning and LLM applications, including feature stores, embedding/vector pipelines, or model-ready data services.
- Experience with automated testing, data validation, idempotent design, security, modularity, and declarative design.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate work.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders and a collaborative team mindset.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive compensation and equity plan.
- Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid parental leave plus fertility, adoption, and other family-planning benefits.
- In-office workspace is available in San Francisco and Chicago.
- Monthly allowance for wellness and reading, plus LinkedIn Learning access.
- Team-based and company-wide events and activities.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowDockerDrupalFireboltGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonSnowflakeTerraformWordPress
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Pantheon Systems, Inc
Pantheon Systems provides a WebOps PaaS for building, hosting, and scaling Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites, with integrated CI/CD, governance, CDN, and security. It sells subscription plans to enterprises, agencies, and universities that manage multi-site portfolios and developer workflows in the cloud. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company powers 300,000+ websites for organizations such as Google, Princeton, Clorox, Salesloft, and the United Nations.