Remote Data Platform Engineer for Enterprise AI

Tessera Labs; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to connect enterprise systems and make data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, building reusable capabilities for data access, querying, moving, and processing.

The role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for those based in the Bay Area, offering high ownership, impact, and collaboration with a deeply technical team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer.
• Experience building backend data services and APIs.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, query optimization, and data movement.

Responsibilities

• Build core data platform capabilities, services, and APIs for data access and ingestion.
• Develop connector frameworks and abstractions to support multiple systems.
• Improve performance and resource efficiency through partitioning, parallelism, and memory management.
• Own execution reliability with orchestration, retries, checkpointing, and observability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define interfaces and productionize capabilities.

Skills

Python

SQL

Job description

Tessera Labs is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to connect enterprise systems and make data usable across applications, analytics, and AI. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and data systems, building reusable capabilities for data access, querying, moving, and processing.

The role is open to remote candidates, with a preference for those based in the Bay Area, offering high ownership, impact, and collaboration with a deeply technical team.