Remote: Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Lyric; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms powering online transactions, analytics, machine learning, and BI. You will work with AWS services (Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena), Snowflake, and data orchestration tools to deliver reliable, cost-efficient systems while ensuring security and high availability.

You will collaborate with data, engineering, and product teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud-based Data Infrastructure or Database Engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena).
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake.
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting languages (Python, Shell).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and GitLab for CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience optimizing database performance and high-throughput data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS using Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, and Snowflake.
• Implement and operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration.
• Ensure high reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms.
• Apply best practices in data modeling, observability, IaC, and CI/CD automation.
• Support and scale distributed data systems (PostgreSQL/Aurora, Snowflake, Kafka, caching).
• Partner with application, analytics, and AI teams to enable self-service data access.
• Participate in design reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements in data platform operations.
• Support on-call rotations and incident response as needed.

Skills

SQL

Python

Shell

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS Data Services

PostgreSQL/Aurora

Snowflake

Terraform

GitLab

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

OpenSearch

Job description

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms powering online transactions, analytics, machine learning, and BI. You will work with AWS services (Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena), Snowflake, and data orchestration tools to deliver reliable, cost-efficient systems while ensuring security and high availability.

You will collaborate with data, engineering, and product teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in