Remote Data Platform Engineer

Cerebras; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to build software that connects enterprise systems and makes data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You’ll work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, creating reusable capabilities for connecting to, querying, moving, and processing data.

This role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for those based in the Bay Area, and offers the chance to impact how enterprises automate workflows across platforms.

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

• At least 2+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer
• 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 development

Data platforms

System design

Job description

Tessera Labs is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to build software that connects enterprise systems and makes data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You’ll work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, creating reusable capabilities for connecting to, querying, moving, and processing data.

This role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for those based in the Bay Area, and offers the chance to impact how enterprises automate workflows across platforms.