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Software Engineer - Data Platform (Staff+)

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and implement foundational pillars of a data platform and integration pipeline to ingest, normalize, and transform enterprise data into a knowledge base for GenAI systems.

Role type

Staff-level Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Enterprise data ingestion pipelines, connectors, data lakes, and indexing strategies for semantic search and RAG.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Applied AI, Enterprise Data Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Data pipeline architecture, ETL orchestration, distributed computing, database fundamentals, Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks, Kafka, Flink

Preferred skills

Knowledge graph construction, semantic search optimization, build vs buy decisions for LLM stacks, scaling integration patterns

Technologies

Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Databricks, Temporal, Airflow

Responsibilities

Build data connectors and run pipelines to extract insights from enterprise environments; Design performant data pipelines and indexing strategies for semantic search and retrieval augmented generation; Architect the modern data platform for Gen AI; Implement generalizable design patterns to scale from 1 to thousands of integrations; Make build vs buy decisions for LLM stack tools and services.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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