Senior Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure
Core
Design, build, and maintain the data backbone (Kafka, ClickHouse, Aurora, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Redis) ensuring reliability, speed, and affordability for product teams.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Data Infrastructure)
Builds
Self-service data infrastructure tooling and automation (Crossplane, Terraform) for provisioning and scaling data stores.
Domain
Cloud-native data infrastructure on AWS
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS multi-region, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu), Kubernetes (EKS), Go, Python, Disaster Recovery planning, Observability (Datadog), Incident management
Preferred skills
Apache Kafka (MSK), Database cluster operations (Aurora, ClickHouse, MongoDB), Internal Developer Platforms (Crossplane), Vector/Search databases (OpenSearch), In-memory stores (Redis)
Technologies
AWS, Amazon MSK, ClickHouse, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB Atlas, OpenSearch, Redis, ElastiCache, Crossplane, Terraform, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, Flux, Datadog, Docker, Amazon EKS, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Responsibilities
Design and improve data infrastructure following cloud-native practices; Build tooling and automation for provisioning and scaling; Integrate new data stores to platform standards; Collaborate with product teams to shape platform needs; Plan disaster recovery and cross-region replication; Monitor availability, performance, and observability; Handle incidents from detection to post-mortem.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC