Data Platform Engineer - Remote

Overview

The Data Platform team is part of the Platform Infrastructure Engineering and Reliability group, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the Stack AV on-premises data platform. The team supports large scale OLAP/OLTP and feature engineering workloads for multiple Product Development groups across the company.

In Short

• Design, implement, maintain, and operate the on-premises data platform for large-scale OLAP/OLTP and feature engineering workloads.
• Engage in requirements gathering and participate in the design process to align the platform with business and internal customer needs.
• Provide production-grade support to internal engineering teams, emphasizing observability, instrumentation, and defined service level objectives (SLOs).
• Collaborate cross-functionally within the organization to meet customer use cases and deliver business value.
• Automate routine administrative tasks and create alerts to proactively identify system issues.
• Identify and implement new features in OSS products to support business needs.
• Work with outside vendors by providing critical product feedback and advocating for new features and changes.
• Develop and implement security best practices at the data, application, infrastructure layers.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and identify / eliminate performance bottlenecks.

Requirements

• Computer Science degree (or equivalent experience will be considered).
• 7+ years of total experience with at least some of that running a service and providing support to users.
• Expert Level Programming skills in 2+ languages like Python, Java, C++ or SQL.
• Hands-on experience running Trino (or Presto), familiarity with Object Storage and open table formats such as Iceberg, DeltaLake.
• Experience with Apache Spark, hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.
• Strong Communications Skills, ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.
• Willingness to participate in daily stand-ups, desire to learn new technologies.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity workplace.
• Commitment to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation.