Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

Job description

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Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team, focusing on Batch Processing. This role is critical in building scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines that power enterprise-wide analytics, machine learning, and business decision-making. You will work on designing and operating large-scale data platforms using modern lakehouse architectures, ensuring high data quality, observability, and compliance with security and governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team’s vision and articulate strategies to have fundamental impact at our massive scale

• You will need a product-focused mindset. It is essential for you to understand business requirements and architect systems that will scale and extend to accommodate those needs

• Diagnose and solve complex problems in distributed systems, develop and document technical solutions and sequence work to make fast, iterative deliveries and improvements

• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems that can handle our massive scale

• Ideate and drive innovative projects that will improve user experience

• Provide solid leadership within your very own problem space, through data-driven approach, robust software designs, and effective delegation

• Participate in, or spearhead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to adopt what’s best suited amongst available technologies

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

• Automate cloud infrastructure, services, and observability

• Develop CI/CD pipelines and testing automation

• Establish and uphold best engineering practices through thorough code and design reviews and improved processes and tools

• Groom junior engineers through mentoring and delegation

• Drive a culture of trust, respect and inclusion within your team
   

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 2–6 years of experience in data engineering / backend engineering

• Strong experience with:

• o Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala)

• o SQL and large-scale data processing

• o Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)

• Experience building batch data pipelines at scale

• Solid understanding of data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow or equivalent)

• Strong programming skills (Python / Java / Scala)

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake / Hudi.

• Exposure to data governance tools (e.g., data catalog, lineage systems)

• Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Flink, etc.)

• Knowledge of data security best practices (PII masking, encryption, IAM)

• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code

• Experience working with large-scale enterprise data platforms

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