Data Platform Engineer — Remote, AI-Driven

ArcTern Ventures; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Retirement plans

Job summary

Palmetto is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own the design of a scalable data platform powering our products, partners, and AI agents. You will govern data across the customer journey and enable trusted, single-source metrics for dashboards, notebooks, and agents.

This high-leverage individual-contributor role sets technical direction, writes foundational code, and collaborates with platform and product teams. AI agents are core consumers of our data platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering with staff or lead experience
• Deep experience in SQL and Python
• Strong knowledge of modern analytical warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Experience with dbt and transformation frameworks
• Experience with ETL orchestration (Fivetran, Airflow)
• Infrastructure as code and containers on major cloud platforms
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical partners
• Knowledge of API design, authentication and PII handling

Responsibilities

• Model the business by building data products from bronze to gold for various teams and AI tools
• Shape semantic context, documentation, and interfaces for governed data
• Design and operate secure, auditable data access paths for products and partners
• Lead pipelines as code with CI/CD, observability, and SLAs
• Review code, mentor teammates, and provide templates and CI checks

Skills

SQL

Python

Leadership

Documentation

Communication

API design

Data modeling

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Fivetran

Airflow

AWS

GCP

Azure

Looker

Hex

Job description

Palmetto is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own the design of a scalable data platform powering our products, partners, and AI agents. You will govern data across the customer journey and enable trusted, single-source metrics for dashboards, notebooks, and agents.

This high-leverage individual-contributor role sets technical direction, writes foundational code, and collaborates with platform and product teams. AI agents are core consumers of our data platform.