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Staff Data Platform Engineer
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full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsNoSQLSQLTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Lead the architecture and design of complex, large-scale distributed systems.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for both real-time and batch data processing.
- Build and maintain high-performance REST APIs with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Design and implement data models and queries for efficient storage and retrieval across SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Lead data quality initiatives to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data across the platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate platform requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Drive technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, and observability across engineering teams.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and direct support.
- Take end-to-end ownership of the software development lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience with a focus on backend and data engineering.
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed data systems using a microservices architecture, with a solid understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, performance, and observability best practices.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and teams.
- Strong leadership skills to guide, mentor, and support engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with evolving or ambiguous requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership of complex projects, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.
- Ability to leverage AI-powered tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity, automate workflows, and optimize data-driven systems.
- Experience with AWS serverless technologies (e.g., SST, CDK, Terraform), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB), stream processing (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams)
- Experience developing backend services using modern languages such as TypeScript and Node.js.
- Experience deploying and managing applications on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
Benefits
- Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman
- Flexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal schedule
- All-hands events hosted annually in beautiful Austin, Texas
- Annual equity awards for all top performers
- Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
- Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately
- Progressive parental leave policies
- Flexible paid time off
- Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events
- Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach
- Stocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
microservices architectureREST APIsSQL databasesNoSQL databasesCI/CD pipelinesTypeScriptNode.jsAWS serverless technologiesstream processingdata modeling
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationanalytical skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilityindependenceownershipteam culture
