Senior Data Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Data Platform Engineer

• Focus: Data-platform modernization, migration, and reliability

• Scope: Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS; legacy Hadoop/Hive/Airflow modernization

Description

Provide hands-on engineering support for modernizing and migrating production data-platform workloads and improving reliability. The work reduces operational support load by upgrading legacy Hadoop, Hive, and Airflow and moving capabilities toward Snowflake, Confluent, and AWS standards. You will support secure, governed access and production operations across stage and production.

Responsibilities

• Migrate acquired infrastructure and data-platform workloads to the client’s infrastructure

• Move data-platform infrastructure and workloads to AWS us-east-2 (USE2), including connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites

• Enable secure, governed access to acquired data for data-platform consumers and downstream systems

• Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices

• Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data-platform migration and operations across stage and production

• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, documentation, runbook creation, and cross-team migration coordination

• Deliver repeatable and auditable changes using Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes

Requirements

• More than 3 years in a senior role with hands-on production data-platform engineering and a platform/DevOps-leaning background

• Strong Python, bash, and SQL skills

• Production experience with Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka with a focus on DevOps and operations

• Deep experience in one area (and working knowledge of the other):
  • Deep Snowflake and AWS experience, with working Kafka knowledge (topics, connectors, schemas)
  • OR deep Kafka/Confluent and AWS experience, with working Snowflake knowledge

• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments

• Strong troubleshooting, incident-response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills

• Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience

• Flexibility to work remotely or in an office

• Regular performance appraisals

• Generous time off (vacation, national holidays, sick leave, family days)

• Personalized learning programs

• Bonuses for article writing and public talks

• Free tech webinars and meetups