Lead Data Platform Engineer — Scale to Petabytes, Hybrid

KDR Recruitment USA; Oxford (OH); Hybrid; USD 134,590 - 201,885; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Oxford

Annual bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

KDR Recruitment USA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Data Platforms) to design and build cloud-native data platforms that enable analytics, AI and product teams to work with massive data efficiently. You will remain hands-on while guiding the technical direction and mentoring a growing team.

The role offers a hybrid work model from Oxford with a competitive salary, annual bonus and benefits package, and opportunities to influence architecture and long-term strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building large-scale backend software systems.
• Strong commercial experience with Python.
• Experience leading and mentoring software engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable platform architecture.
• Passion for software quality, automation and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core data platforms enabling analytics and AI at scale.
• Provide hands-on leadership while mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards.
• Shape architecture and tooling from day one with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Collaborate across product and analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Backend systems

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

KDR Recruitment USA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Data Platforms) to design and build cloud-native data platforms that enable analytics, AI and product teams to work with massive data efficiently. You will remain hands-on while guiding the technical direction and mentoring a growing team.

The role offers a hybrid work model from Oxford with a competitive salary, annual bonus and benefits package, and opportunities to influence architecture and long-term strategy.