Senior Mission Data Platform Engineer
Core
Design, build, and operate the foundational data infrastructure empowering analytics and engineering teams to build high-impact analyses and data-driven applications for air defense systems.
Role type
Senior Mission Data Platform Engineer
Builds
Scalable, self-service data platform serving analytics engineers, data scientists, and software engineers
Domain
Defense technology / Cloud infrastructure / Modern data stack
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE principles, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, Data lakehouse technologies (Apache Iceberg), Query engines (Trino/Presto, AWS Athena), Transformation tools (dbt), Real-time stream & batch processing (Apache Kafka, Apache Spark), Data pipeline orchestration (Flyte, Airflow, Dagster), Python, SQL, Linux troubleshooting
Preferred skills
Systems programming (C/C++, Rust, Zig), On-premises analytical workloads, Specialized data formats (MCAP, HDF5), Nix ecosystem
Technologies
Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Datadog, Grafana, Apache Iceberg, Trino, Presto, AWS Athena, dbt, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Flyte, Airflow, Dagster, Python, SQL, Go, Java, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript
Responsibilities
Lead design and maintenance of scalable self-service data platform; Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC and containerization; Partner with platform users to provide robust tooling and documentation; Implement SRE principles for high availability and observability; Evolve platform architecture by integrating new technologies from the modern data stack
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
