Data Platform Engineer: Remote-Ready AI Data Bridges

Tessera Labs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs seeks a Data Platform Engineer to build the software connecting enterprise systems and making data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You'll work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, building reusable capabilities for connecting to, querying, moving, and processing data.

This role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for Bay Area-based contributors.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL, with experience building maintainable, tested production software.
• Experience developing backend services, data infrastructure, or data platform components, beyond configuring pipelines.
• A solid understanding of relational databases, query optimization, data formats, and the tradeoffs between querying data in place and materializing it elsewhere.
• Experience with concurrent or distributed workloads, including failure handling, resource management, and performance debugging.
• The ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and turn complex requirements into clear, practical designs.

Responsibilities

• Build core data platform capabilities. Develop services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization.
• Make integrations reusable. Build connector frameworks and abstractions that support different systems and access patterns without requiring bespoke implementations.
• Improve performance and resource efficiency. Identify bottlenecks in querying and data movement; apply partitioning, parallelism, and effective memory and storage management.
• Own execution reliability. Build orchestration, retries, checkpointing, and observability so workloads recover predictably from failures and maintain data correctness.
• Take capabilities from design to production. Work with product and engineering teams to define interfaces, make architectural tradeoffs, and operate what you build.

Skills

Python

SQL

Backend services

Data platforms

Job description

Tessera Labs seeks a Data Platform Engineer to build the software connecting enterprise systems and making data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You'll work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, building reusable capabilities for connecting to, querying, moving, and processing data.

This role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for Bay Area-based contributors.