Remote Staff Engineer - Data Platform & Cloud

Talanto; Poland; Remote; PLN 246,000 - 379,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical and dental care

Life insurance

Employee Referral Program

Hackathons and knowledge sharing

Tech and sport communities

Events and integration parties

Game room and chillout zone

Job summary

The Stepstone Group, a global job-tech platform company, seeks a senior Data Platform leader to define the technical vision and architecture. You will influence across data, platform, and infrastructure domains and drive engineering excellence in collaboration with engineering managers and enterprise architects.

Join a team focused on scalable data solutions, data governance, and AI-assisted development. This role emphasizes leadership and strategic direction in a remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior IC leadership role.
• Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Expertise with AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap and architecture of the Data Platform, driving decisions across data, platform and infrastructure domains.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns with Enterprise Architecture.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practices.
• Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges and risk management.
• Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities and champion AI-assisted development and automation.

Skills

Staff leadership

Data platforms

Cloud-native

AWS

Terraform

Kafka/MSK

Airflow

Spark

Data quality & observability

Tools

Datadog

DBT

Iceberg

Job description

The Stepstone Group, a global job-tech platform company, seeks a senior Data Platform leader to define the technical vision and architecture. You will influence across data, platform, and infrastructure domains and drive engineering excellence in collaboration with engineering managers and enterprise architects.

Join a team focused on scalable data solutions, data governance, and AI-assisted development. This role emphasizes leadership and strategic direction in a remote-friendly environment.