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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and platforms using Python, Spark, and GCP, while integrating AI-driven workflows to improve data engineering processes.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement solutions for complex platform challenges, including high‑scale pipeline architecture and modeling decisions
  • Conduct technical code reviews focusing on performance, cost, and maintainability
  • Act as a technical reference for production troubleshooting and cloud cost optimization
  • Collaborate with partner teams on data contracts, latency, quality, and governance
  • Identify and lead the execution of addressing technical debt
  • Work in an AI‑driven environment to enhance team productivity and data engineering processes

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or Go
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and application scalability
  • Experience with distributed processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Beam
  • Containerization and deployment experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with CI/CD and platform monitoring/observability
  • Pipeline orchestration using Airflow, dbt, or Dataform
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, GCS, GKS, IAM, DataProc, Cloud SQL, Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataflow)
  • Management of analytical visualization platforms (Metabase, Looker, Tableau)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI architectures applied to data (RAG, MCP, agentic systems)
  • Construction of data warehouse, data lake, or data lakehouse environments
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Benefits

  • Food and/or meal allowance
  • Health and dental insurance
  • Transportation voucher
  • Extended maternity and paternity leave
  • Childcare assistance
  • Wellhub and Zenklub partnerships
  • Education incentives and MBA/Post‑grad partnerships
  • Airfare discounts
  • Pet health insurance partnership
  • Access to Arco educational materials for children of employees

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