Data Platform Engineer officer
State Street14 days ago
Hangzhou, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services and shared libraries for streaming and batch ingestion, metadata-driven pipelines, API integrations, transformation, and master data management.
- Develop reusable platform components using open table formats, catalog systems, and query engines.
- Implement role-based access control, authentication, enterprise entitlement integrations, and other platform security controls.
- Build observability capabilities including logging, metrics, traces, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Collaborate with architects and Platform Engineering and Data Engineering teams on scalable, extensible, standards-aligned designs.
- Drive code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and production-readiness practices.
- Ensure services meet enterprise security, compliance, governance, and SLA requirements.
- Participate in on-call and major incident management and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Python and Java; Rust knowledge is a bonus.
- Strong programming skills in Spark with hands-on optimization and debugging experience.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and Databricks as data platforms.
- Strong understanding of SQL optimization, execution, and large-scale analytics.
- Deep understanding of distributed computing and hyperscale environments.
- Experience building production-grade services in cloud environments; AWS, GCP, and/or Azure experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with Apache Iceberg, data catalogs such as Polaris, Horizon, or Unity Catalog, and metadata management.
- Familiarity with streaming pipelines and Kafka is preferred.
- Understanding of data modeling and data product design.
- Experience with CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Financial or data-platform background is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks are provided.
- The employer is committed to equal opportunity and considers qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.