Data Platform Engineer — Remote (Databricks & Infra)

Uplight; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellness stipend

Work flexibility

Parental leave

Job summary

Uplight is seeking a Software Engineer – Data Platform to help scale our data infrastructure. You will join a remote-first team building the platform layer that enables product teams to work efficiently and securely across cloud resources.

Responsibilities include managing Databricks across AWS/GCP, Unity Catalog, and CI/CD tooling, while enabling self-service onboarding and robust data governance. This role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and responsible use of AI tooling.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools for cloud resources.
• Experience with Databricks or a similar data platform.
• Familiarity with AI tooling and agentic AI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Databricks infrastructure across AWS and GCP using Terraform.
• Contribute to Unity Catalog administration including metastores, workspaces, catalog and schema infrastructure and access patterns.
• Help build deployment accelerators, templates, and self-service tooling (Databricks Asset Bundles) for onboarding and shipping.
• Support engineers across the company using the platform, troubleshooting and turning questions into docs.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI and related deployment patterns.
• Maintain and iterate on our existing MLOps infrastructure.
• Incorporate agentic AI into daily workflows and tooling for development, reviews, testing, and runbooks.

Skills

Python

SQL

Terraform

Databricks

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

AI tooling / agentic AI curiosity

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

Databricks

Job description

Uplight is seeking a Software Engineer – Data Platform to help scale our data infrastructure. You will join a remote-first team building the platform layer that enables product teams to work efficiently and securely across cloud resources.

Responsibilities include managing Databricks across AWS/GCP, Unity Catalog, and CI/CD tooling, while enabling self-service onboarding and robust data governance. This role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and responsible use of AI tooling.