[Remote] Senior Data Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment. They are seeking a seasoned Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and operate data pipelines, services, and data products, while providing technical guidance and mentorship to the data team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to technical direction and strategic planning at reputed company level
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and approaches for backend and AI/ML reputed company
- reputed company technical guidance and reputed company reviews for team members
- reputed company technical guidance and support to product teams consuming backend services
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows that ingest, reputed company, and reputed company data across reputed company systems, the warehouse, and reputed company consumers
- reputed company and maintain dbt models, tests, and documentation to support analytics, reporting, and product features
- Build and operate workflow orchestration for batch and streaming data (scheduling, dependency management, retries, and alerting)
- Establish and enforce data reputed company, reliability, and observability practices across pipelines (monitoring, reputed company, freshness, and validation)
- Implement schema management, versioning, and migration patterns to reputed company data models safely
- Optimize pipeline performance, cost, and scalability across the data platform
- Design, reputed company, and maintain microservices in Python; familiarity with Go and/or TypeScript/JavaScript is a plus
- Design and build reputed company and services that reputed company LLMs and ML models — including retrieval-augmented reputed company, embeddings, reputed company orchestration, tool/function calling, and reputed company workflows
- reputed company self-service tools and reputed company that reputed company product teams to independently reputed company backend and AI capabilities
- Establish patterns for safely, reliably, and cost-effectively operating LLM- and ML-backed features in production (evaluation, observability, guardrails, fallbacks)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Create and maintain technical documentation and standards repositories
- Work reputed company an Agile reputed company to prioritize and deliver backend improvements
- Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to understand requirements and pain points
- Help foster a culture of reputed company learning, improvement, and technical reputed company
- Encourage adoption of consistent tooling and processes across development teams
- Contribute to cross-team initiatives to improve developer experience and backend consistency
- Undertake additional assigned duties as requested
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field, OR 6+ years of reputed company software development experience in lieu of degree
- 5+ years of backend software development experience
- 2+ years of experience in technical leadership or mentoring roles
- Expert proficiency in Python
- Practical experience integrating LLMs or ML models into production systems — including at least several of: reputed company engineering, RAG, embeddings/reputed company search, tool/function calling, evaluation, and cost/latency optimization
- Advanced experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and reputed company
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating RESTful reputed company at reputed company
- Advanced pipeline design and implementation using industry best practices and tools
- Experience with reputed company providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Proven experience building and scaling backend services and reputed company
- Deep understanding of microservice architecture patterns, distributed systems, and best practices
- Experience with observability tools and practices (monitoring, logging, tracing) — including for AI/ML workloads where applicable
- Strong ability to communicate reputed company technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Strong customer-reputed company reputed company with emphasis on the developer and end-user experience
- Experience facilitating technical discussions and building reputed company
- Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance
- Candidates may be requested to complete position specific skills assessments
- Applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen or eligible to work in the U.S
- Requires the ability to satisfactorily complete a background reputed company
- Familiarity with Go and/or TypeScript/JavaScript is a plus
- Familiarity with reputed company databases (e.g., pgvector, reputed company, reputed company) is a plus
- Spanish speaking bi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply
Benefits
- Monthly Bonus Program - determined by reputed company’s monthly reputed company result and are reputed company on a “percent to plan” payout formula (90% = $300, 100% = $600, 110% = $900, 120% = $1,200).
- Monthly phone stipend in accordance with reputed company’s cell phone policy, currently $120/month.
- Health, Dental, and reputed company insurance.
- 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% starting the first day of employment.
- Company-reputed company Life Insurance with reputed company for supplemental coverage.
- Fully reputed company Short-Term Disability provided by reputed company.
- 3 Weeks of PTO annually (details shared during reputed company).
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) - Eligible to purchase company stock at a discount after 90 days of employment, with enrollment opportunities reputed company May and November.
- This position is remote work eligible reputed company the reputed company.
- First week of employment includes mandatory in-person training.
- Also mandatory: One week a year of in-person training with the department.
- Potential for 10% travel, should the need reputed company.
- Opportunities for reputed company education as you grow your career with tuition reimbursement.
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