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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior data platform engineer for a mid-sized software company in San Francisco, owning BigQuery, lakehouse and GCP-to-AWS data infrastructure.

About the role

A mid-sized software development company in San Francisco is hiring for this role. You will own and evolve the company's data platform, from scalable infrastructure and ingestion to orchestration and backend services. The platform supports analytics, machine learning and AI applications, so reliability and reusable capabilities matter.

What you'll do

  • Own and evolve the data platform, including scalable infrastructure, BigQuery and lakehouse systems.
  • Build and run ingestion, orchestration, pipelines and backend services.
  • Move data securely between GCP and AWS.
  • Improve reliability, observability, data quality, governance and cost.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities for analytics, machine learning and AI applications.

What you bring

  • Senior-level experience building and running data platforms.
  • Hands-on work with BigQuery and lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience with GCP and AWS, including secure data movement between them.
  • Strong skills in pipelines, orchestration and backend services.
  • A focus on observability, governance and cost control.

Details

  • Location: San Francisco, United States
  • Type: Full-time

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