Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is seeking Platform Engineers to blend strong infrastructure chops with backend depth. You will build and operate the systems and agent infrastructure that let product teams move fast and reliably, delivering high-quality data to customers.

We are growing and hiring at multiple levels, with focus on governance, lineage, and cost optimization while maintaining reliability and rapid iteration in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building platform infrastructure, backend services, or data systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and designing REST APIs for internal services.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS) - hands-on with S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, IAM.
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster) and transformation frameworks (dbt).
• Understanding of data governance concepts - RBAC, PII handling, audit logging.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agent infrastructure that allows us to safely and reliably speed up workflows from engineering and operation teams
• Design and implement event-driven data flows using event brokers, CDC connectors, schema registries, event routing, and dead letter queues - ensuring events flow reliably and failures are visible and recoverable
• Build the systems that track how data moves through the platform (lineage), enforce who can access what (governance and RBAC), and log what happened (auditing), including PII handling, retention policy enforcement, and audit infrastructure for enterprise and regulatory compliance
• Set strategy and architecture for build systems, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines, and drive the transition toward robust, automated continuous deployment
• Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, define and monitor SLOs (query latency, pipeline success rates, service reliability), and build alerting that catches issues before they become incidents - you will be on-call for the systems you build
• Contribute to infrastructure cost visibility and optimization - query cost estimation, workload right-sizing, and routing data to the most cost-effective storage tier for its access pattern
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to bring consistency and high standards to codebases, infrastructure, and processes

Job description

Snorkel AI is seeking Platform Engineers to blend strong infrastructure chops with backend depth. You will build and operate the systems and agent infrastructure that let product teams move fast and reliably, delivering high-quality data to customers.

We are growing and hiring at multiple levels, with focus on governance, lineage, and cost optimization while maintaining reliability and rapid iteration in a fast-paced environment.