Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Ready Pipelines

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Financial planning

Mental health

Fertility benefits

Student loan help

Remote stipend

Lifestyle stipend

Team events

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform to join a leader in the Finance & Insurance space. This role shapes the data platform with scalable, reliable infrastructure for data-intensive workloads and AI-ready capabilities.

You will build and operate services that move, process, and secure critical data while partnering with engineering and compliance teams. Location: Remote – US based candidates only; visa sponsorship not available. Compensation: $190,000–$230,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, particularly data-intensive systems.
• Proven ability to design distributed systems and services, with a strong grasp of concurrency and partial failure.
• Hands-on experience with containerized workloads in AWS, including scaling and performance tuning.
• Ability to independently manage and enhance complex production systems, including automated testing and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed services and compute infrastructure for the data platform
• Own the end-to-end design and development of scalable data pipelines and services
• Improve the movement of event-sourced data between production systems and the data infrastructure
• Participate in on-call duties and manage production issues in distributed data systems
• Ensure secure handling of participant and employer data in alignment with compliance standards
• Help evolve the data platform toward AI-first infrastructure, with an emphasis on unstructured data access
• Mentor team members and raise technical standards across the data stack

Skills

5+ years production software

Distributed systems design

AWS container workloads

CI/CD automation

Airflow at scale

Tools

Airflow

AWS

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform to join a leader in the Finance & Insurance space. This role shapes the data platform with scalable, reliable infrastructure for data-intensive workloads and AI-ready capabilities.

You will build and operate services that move, process, and secure critical data while partnering with engineering and compliance teams. Location: Remote – US based candidates only; visa sponsorship not available. Compensation: $190,000–$230,000 annually.