Senior Data Platform Engineer
Core
Design and build a governed data platform enabling contract-driven data sharing, publishing, and consumption across operational and analytical systems.
Role type
Senior IC data platform engineer
Builds
Centralized publishing tables, CDC pipelines, Kafka topics, and catalog metadata for reusable data products
Domain
Advertising technology / Data infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, PostgreSQL operations, Kafka event streaming, CDC implementation, GitOps workflows, Kubernetes orchestration, developer tooling, schema evolution, data lineage modeling
Preferred skills
DataHub integration, open table formats (Iceberg), policy-as-code, data contracts, JVM/Python/Go/TypeScript
Technologies
PostgreSQL, Kafka, Debezium, Kubernetes, DataHub, GitOps, S3, BigQuery, ClickHouse
Responsibilities
Design platform services for contract-driven data publishing; Build production paths for CDC and catalog registration; Create GitOps workflows for schema and policy validation; Develop tooling for fast feedback on data product changes; Define data product modeling and access policies; Operate and improve CDC runtime on Kubernetes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC