Senior Platform Engineer: Build Reliable Data Pipelines

Permutable; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Permutable is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and run the data platform that powers our market intelligence. You’ll shape production pipelines, storage design and cloud infrastructure, enabling other engineers to move fast with confidence.

This role blends software and data engineering with production operations, offering opportunities to create reusable tooling, improve monitoring, and help users understand data through reliable releases.

Qualifications

• Production software engineering experience in Python/Java/Scala and SQL.
• Ability to read, reason about and modify an existing codebase, with testing, maintainability and code review.
• Experience building and running production data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve production data pipelines, including how they recover from failures and handle reruns, backfills and changing schemas.
• Develop tested, maintainable software, contributing through code review and safe releases.
• Help shape data storage and modelling decisions around the needs of the systems and people using the data.
• Develop cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows that make changes repeatable and manageable.
• Build reusable libraries, templates or workflows that help other engineers deliver reliably.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, data quality checks and recovery procedures.
• Work with engineers and data users to understand requirements, explain trade-offs and document what you build.

Skills

Software engineering

SQL

Code review

Testing

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Spark

Flink

Beam

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Hudi

Job description

Permutable is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and run the data platform that powers our market intelligence. You’ll shape production pipelines, storage design and cloud infrastructure, enabling other engineers to move fast with confidence.

This role blends software and data engineering with production operations, offering opportunities to create reusable tooling, improve monitoring, and help users understand data through reliable releases.