Data Platform Engineer

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Implement robust ETL processes to ingest, transform, and organize data for general usage within our Snowflake data warehouse 
• Work closely with Engineering, Product and Quality teams to deploy and manage services in our cloud environments (AWS + CDK) 
• Seek out tasks across the company that can benefit from automation, then develop tools to provide it 
• Optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for performance and cost-effectiveness 
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform health and performance 
• Ensure platform security and compliance with relevant regulatory standards  
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to improve platform capabilities and efficiency 
• Document technical designs, processes, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration 

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Data Engineer or similar role (e.g.Backend Developer), with a focus on building, automating and maintaining data platforms and/or microservices 
• Strong proficiency in programming languages; we use Python, Java, and a little Go 
• Experience in working with data orchestration tools (DBT, Airflow) 
• Hands-on experience with AWS (major plus for IaC experience with CDK or terraform) 
• Deep understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and SQL query optimization 
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and EKS 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment 

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties the physical requirements are: 
Office Based Positions:  
• Constantly reach to use computers, monitors, and other office equipment 
• Constantly need to view objects at close and distant ranges 
• Constantly communicate with others verbally and in writing 
• Frequently required to sit or stand   
• This position functions in an office and technical environment and requires fine manipulation and simple grasping to utilize the computer and other standard office equipment. 
• Required occasional lifting and transporting of items weighing up to 25 lbs. 
• This position may require occasional travel.