Senior Data Platform Engineer

tripstack

Senior Infrastructure Engineer managing the migration of data stack to Kubernetes. Ensuring operational health of data applications at Tripstack, a B2B Flights as a Service provider.

Posted 7/11/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$140,000 - CA$170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowApacheElasticSearchFluxGrafanaKafkaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusSparkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the data-stack migration
Plan and execute the migration of Druid, Spark, Redpanda, and our orchestration layer
Design StatefulSet, PVC, pod-disruption-budget, and rolling-upgrade patterns for production data systems
Own the operational health of Druid, Spark, Redpanda, Airflow, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch
Build the KPIs, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to monitor platform health
Raise the bar on observability and reliability with proper tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong Kubernetes experience with stateful workloads
Infrastructure as Code at a senior level — Terraform, Helm or Kustomize, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux
Observability and RCA discipline — Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, SLOs, error budgets, and the habit of writing the runbook that stops the next incident
Production operations experience with at least one of Apache Druid, Apache Kafka or Redpanda, Apache Spark, or Elasticsearch
7+ years building and operating production data or platform systems
Clear written and verbal English; comfortable working across Kraków, Toronto, Pune, and Stockholm time zones

Benefits

Comp & perks

opportunity to work with a young, dynamic, and a growing team composed of high-caliber professionals
value professionalism and promote a culture where individuals are encouraged to do more and be more
embrace diversity and create a safe, healthy and accessible environment
equal opportunity employer

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data MigrationStatefulSet DesignProduction OperationsKubernetesTerraformHelmPrometheusGrafanaApache DruidApache Spark

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaboration Across Time Zones