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Data Platform Operations Engineer – Performance

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$185,000🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Ensure reliability, correctness, and performance of production data systems supporting performance analysis and decision-making.

Role type

Senior Data Platform Operations Engineer

Builds

Robust, observable, and efficient data workflows for the Performance Team

Domain

Financial services / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, PySpark, Pandas, ETL pipeline management, CI/CD (GitLab), root cause analysis, performance tuning, automation, resource management

Preferred skills

High-throughput systems, workload scheduling, cluster-based compute

Responsibilities

Monitor and maintain ETLs and data pipelines for correctness and stability; Design and maintain data quality checks, reports, and alerting; Investigate and resolve data issues and pipeline failures; Troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipeline issues; Monitor workloads and resource usage to resolve imbalances; Build and maintain operational tooling, automation, and runbooks; Continuously tune data pipelines for performance and efficiency

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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