Senior Data Platform Engineer
Neros Technologies1 month ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$164k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build vehicle-to-cloud flight-data capture and transfer with prioritization, resumability, and integrity verification.
- Decode, time-align, validate, and quarantine raw logs, video, and multi-sensor data.
- Design and operate the data catalog, tag model, cloud storage, database, and query layer.
- Serve deterministic, reproducible logs and playable video to evaluation and regression workflows.
- Create versioned, immutable datasets with lineage so model training sets can be rebuilt exactly.
- Own the platform’s architecture, operating cost, compliance posture, and ongoing production operation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production data or backend infrastructure experience, including end-to-end ownership of at least one system.
- Experience with large-scale multi-terabyte log or sensor data containing video and synchronized sensor streams, such as rosbag, MCAP, HDF5, or Parquet.
- Experience designing and migrating schemas, indexes, or catalogs queried by other engineers.
- Strong Python, SQL, and production ownership of a relational database such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience provisioning and independently operating cloud object storage and compute on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with distributed or parallel batch processing and orchestration using Spark, Ray, Dask, Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of sensor-stream time synchronization, deterministic processing, and reproducible recorded-data workflows.
- Track record of building adopted internal engineering tools and adapting designs based on usage.
- Preferred experience includes robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defense data infrastructure; large-scale video transcoding and playback; Azure, Terraform, Bicep, and cloud-budget ownership; export-controlled, GovCloud, IL4/IL5, CMMC, or ITAR environments; and integrations with labeling, model training, experiment tracking, or model registry workflows.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $163,500–$228,500 USD.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included as part of total compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Neros Technologies
Neros Technologies designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned systems—air vehicles, autonomy software, and related strike and sensing payloads—for U.S. and allied defense customers. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, focuses on combat-tested drones built and iterated at scale to close the gap between design and deployment. Its work spans GPS-denied navigation, state estimation, guidance, and manufacturing to help rebuild the U.S. drone industrial base.