Senior Data Platform Engineer

Phaidra

Senior Data Platform Engineer driving architecture decisions for Phaidra's data platform team. Building scalable systems for real-time data ingestion and processing in a remote setting.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $123,760 - $200,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You'll own the systems every other team at Phaidra depends on for ingestion, storage, serving, and orchestration.
Design and build scalable components for the data platform that enable high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
Design and develop systems to store and serve batch data for analytics.
Contribute to the design and implementation of API services and scalable event-driven applications that power the product backend.
Design clear, extensible software interfaces for internal consumers and maintain a high release-quality bar.
Design and optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security, and ease of access.
Own and operate your services in production, including releases, deployments, and on-call rotations, meeting Phaidra's high bar for operational excellence.
Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers, and TPMs across teams.
Mentor your peers and be a technical role model on the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed or data-intensive systems.
Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
Proven expertise building, operating, and monitoring large-scale multi-tenant systems while accounting for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling.
Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting.
Approach your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency, directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.
Experience with latest batch & realtime data processing, storage & service technologies such as Apache Flink.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fast-paced, team-oriented environment where your work directly shapes the company’s direction.
We are a 100% remote company.
Competitive compensation & meaningful equity.
Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).
Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year.
Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).
Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development.
Company MacBook.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdistributed systemsdata ingestiondata storagedata processingAPI servicesevent-driven applicationsdata storage mechanismshigh availabilityfault tolerance

Soft Skills

ownershipcollaborationcommunicationmentorshipcuriositytransparencydirectnessoutcome orientationcustomer empathyleadership