Identify structural weaknesses and eliminate operational fragility.
Define clear ingestion, validation, and testing standards across the platform.
Drive ambiguous initiatives from concept to production-ready outcomes.
Produce decisive technical artifacts and recommendations that enable leadership decisions.
Raise the engineering bar across CI/CD, observability, cost efficiency, and documentation discipline.

Requirements

8+ years designing and operating high-volume distributed data systems in production.
Deep expertise with a cloud data platform (Databricks preferred) and AWS, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and Spark for large-scale processing.
Hands-on experience with dbt and understanding of how platform decisions impact downstream modeling.
Strong grasp of data modeling, partitioning strategies, storage formats, and analytical workload optimization.
Experience with Airflow
Experience with modern CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, Terraform).
Experience designing and maintaining real-time streaming architectures
Demonstrated ability to independently scope ambiguous problems and drive them to decisive outcomes.
Track record of proactively escalating risks and closing long-running efforts with clear recommendations.
Experience defining ingestion validation standards and implementing data quality controls.
Proven ability to reduce operational fragility and eliminate single points of failure.
Strong systems design skills across distributed and event-based architectures.
Demonstrated technical leadership influencing cross-team architectural decisions.
Excellent communication skills across engineering, analytics, product, and executive stakeholders.
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
Learning & Development programs.
Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLSparkdbtAirflowCI/CDGitHub ActionsTerraformdata modelingreal-time streaming architectures

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingrisk managementdecision-makinginfluencingindependent scopingcollaborationproactive escalationdocumentation discipline

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceBS in EngineeringBS in Mathematicsequivalent experience