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Lead Data Mesh Engineer

6 Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and deliver an enterprise-grade, Everything-as-Code Data Mesh, transforming corporate IT into an automated software factory by owning high-throughput, asynchronous event-streaming infrastructure and hybrid data pipelines.

Role type

Lead Data Mesh Engineer (Infrastructure & Architecture)

Builds

Multi-cloud event-streaming backbone (AWS MSK, Apache NiFi on EKS) and hybrid data lakehouse integrations

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Event Streaming

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Apache Kafka (AWS MSK), Apache NiFi, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), Apache Avro, AsyncAPI, Schema Registry, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing

Preferred skills

Policy-as-Code (Open Policy Agent/Rego)

Responsibilities

Architect and provision multi-AZ AWS MSK clusters and Apache NiFi runtimes on EKS using Terraform and GitOps; Integrate vendor-neutral Schema Registries to enforce Apache Avro and AsyncAPI data contracts; Implement high-performance partition strategies, dynamic storage auto-scaling, and payload compression for FinOps optimization; Build fault-tolerant Dead Letter Queue automated replay loops and ensure out-of-band tracing context propagation across service hops

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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