Staff Data Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and own core systems within their streaming data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core platform systems, including schema management and streaming frameworks
• Define technical standards and patterns for the Streaming Data Platform team
• Lead cross-team design reviews and drive platform reliability, performance, and cost strategy

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering
• Deep expertise with Kafka and operational tuning
• Experience designing and operating multi-service distributed systems
• Experience setting technical direction for a team or domain
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools; Terraform experience is a plus