Senior Data Platform Engineer – Lead Data Infrastructure

Mozilla; Toronto; On-site; CAD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plans

Medical/dental/vision

Retirement contributions

Wellness days

Birthday holiday

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Well-being stipend

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

Mozilla Canada is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer to help build and scale our Data Platform infrastructure across products like Firefox. This role blends data engineering and platform leadership in a hybrid environment and offers a chance to influence data strategies at scale.

You'll design reliable data systems, mentor teams, and collaborate with Data Science, Product, Legal, Policy, and Engineering to drive impactful data solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of combined experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Data Science, or Data Analyst roles.
• Deep expertise in Data Engineering and Data Platform Engineering.
• Experience with data tooling in GCP, AWS, or Azure, including Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Dataflow (Apache Beam).
• Experience with Looker, Fivetran, Kubernetes / GKE, Airflow / Cloud Composer, and Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Advanced coding skills in SQL and Python.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience as a tech lead, team lead, hands‑on Data Engineering or Data Platform manager, or similar leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve systems to reliably and efficiently process data at the scale of tens of terabytes per day, and apply those systems to solve meaningful problems for the business.
• Evaluate new technologies. Work with Data Engineering and Data Platform Engineering not only to implement these technologies but also to set best-practice standards.
• Craft and improve workflows in GCP using standard, modern components such as Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, GKE, and Airflow.
• Drive cross-functional projects with stakeholders across Mozilla, including Data Science, Product, Legal, Policy, and Engineering.
• Mentor teammates and develop engineering best practices across the Data Organization.
• Work with Data Science to design and implement useful data abstractions.
• Address the evolving needs of active Data Products.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platform engineering

SQL

Python

GCP / AWS / Azure

Looker / Fivetran

Kubernetes / GKE

Airflow

Terraform

Technical leadership

Tools

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Dataflow (Apache Beam)

Looker

Fivetran

Kubernetes / GKE

Airflow / Cloud Composer

Terraform

Job description

Mozilla Canada is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer to help build and scale our Data Platform infrastructure across products like Firefox. This role blends data engineering and platform leadership in a hybrid environment and offers a chance to influence data strategies at scale.

You'll design reliable data systems, mentor teams, and collaborate with Data Science, Product, Legal, Policy, and Engineering to drive impactful data solutions.