Senior Software Engineer II
Core
Provide technical leadership for the Data Platform team, defining architectural direction and building scalable, reliable data capabilities supporting analytics, AI, and business-critical products.
Role type
Senior IC Data Platform Architect / Engineering Lead
Builds
Scalable, well-governed data platform capabilities (data lakes/lakehouse, batch/streaming processing)
Domain
Data Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems, Cloud-native architectures, Data platform design, Engineering standards, Code quality & observability, Mentorship (via careerplan.io/jobs/744000153799915-senior-software-engineer-ii-at-stepstone-group)
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development, Engineering automation, Data quality & governance tools (Datadog), DBT
Technologies
AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, Spark, Iceberg, DBT, Datadog
Responsibilities
Define technical vision and roadmap for the Data Platform; Establish engineering standards and best practices; Drive engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and reliability; Guide teams through complex technical challenges; Mentor engineers and champion AI-assisted development
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope
