Data Platform Engineer: Ingest, Pipelines & Governance

Movable Ink; United States; Remote; USD 91,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Movable Ink is seeking an Engineer for the Data Platform team to design and build systems powering data flow across the organization. You will develop pipelines, storage layers, and governance mechanisms delivering scalable data access for products and services.

You will work with engineering, analytics, and ML teams to define data contracts, SLIs/SLOs, and best practices while evolving legacy pipelines toward modern architectures. This role reports to the Engineering Manager, Data Platform.

Qualifications

• A proven ability to learn new technologies, frameworks, and problem domains.
• A focus on solving big picture problems with a focus on product and the end user.
• Deep understanding of data governance principles and data lifecycle management, including data quality, lineage, retention, and access control.
• Strong familiarity with database backend technologies (OLAP vs. OLTP) and when to apply each, with hands-on experience using data warehouse technologies (Databricks, Clickhouse, Redshift, etc) at production scale.
• Strong familiarity with SQL with the ability to write and optimize queries.
• Skill at building complex systems and identifying core primitives and how to apply them to meet changing business needs and future roadmap requirements.
• Experience designing and operating data systems on a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP) and working in a multi-cloud deployment environment.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven ability to integrate systems, connecting legacy platforms with modern architectures through well-designed interfaces and migration strategies.
• Effective communicator who can facilitate system design discussions, document architectural decisions, and work across team boundaries.
• (Nice to have) Familiarity with Elixir for building concurrent, fault-tolerant data services
• (Nice to have) Experience with data pipeline and streaming technologies such as Airflow, Kafka, Apache Flink, or similar
• (Nice to have) Hands-on experience with columnar/OLAP databases such as Databricks or ClickHouse
• Experience designing and operating data systems on AWS; GCP experience is a plus
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable leading design discussions, writing technical specs, and working across team boundaries
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar

Responsibilities

• Support the design and delivery of data ingestion pipeline and infrastructure
• Assist in the successful migration of legacy data lifecycle management to new platform without disrupting existing data consumers
• Establish and maintain SLIs and SLOs for new ingestion and data platform with dashboards and alerting to track performance
• Build flexible data storage layer supporting a variety of use cases, e.g., transactional, analytic, and machine learning workloads
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, observability, and incident response practices for all event data pipelines and services
• Collaborate with product engineering, analytics, and machine learning teams to define contracts, functional requirements, and standards
• Design and implement a semantic metadata layer that classifies and labels data assets across both products, enabling consistent data discovery, exposure policies, and identification of cross-product data reuse opportunities
• Architect and deliver a multi-tenant data model that supports secure data sharing and isolation across clients, with controls designed to meet regulatory and government compliance requirements

Skills

Learn new technologies

Product end user focus

Data governance

SQL

Data warehouse

Databricks

ClickHouse

Redshift

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

System design

Communication

Tools

Databricks

ClickHouse

Redshift

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Movable Ink is seeking an Engineer for the Data Platform team to design and build systems powering data flow across the organization. You will develop pipelines, storage layers, and governance mechanisms delivering scalable data access for products and services.

You will work with engineering, analytics, and ML teams to define data contracts, SLIs/SLOs, and best practices while evolving legacy pipelines toward modern architectures. This role reports to the Engineering Manager, Data Platform.