Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer - Cloud Data Pipelines

Select Source Solutions; Greenbelt (MD); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud-based data platforms for enterprise workloads. You will deliver data ingestion, processing, storage, APIs, and automation components to move data securely and efficiently across the environment.

The role blends data engineering with cloud platform engineering, requiring hands-on production-grade implementation, automation, and collaboration with architects, analytics, and security

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Significant hands-on experience building production data pipelines and data platforms.
• Experience implementing cloud-based data solutions within AWS, Azure, GCP, or comparable environments.
• Strong experience with Python, SQL, or comparable data-engineering technologies.
• Experience automating data and platform workflows.
• Strong understanding of scalable, reliable, production-grade cloud architectures.
• Must be able to hold a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud-based data-platform components and services.
• Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, processing, and distribution pipelines.
• Implement cloud storage, data repositories, databases, and supporting platform services.
• Develop APIs and integrations that enable applications and systems to access and exchange data.
• Translate architecture and solution designs into production-ready implementations.
• Build automation that supports data movement, provisioning, processing, monitoring, and operational management.
• Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources.
• Develop solutions that improve data reliability, accessibility, quality, scalability, and performance.
• Implement cloud-native services and containerized workloads where appropriate.
• Support batch, event-driven, streaming, and API-based integration patterns.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational controls for data pipelines and platform services.
• Troubleshoot complex data-ingestion, integration, performance, and platform issues.
• Partner with architects, software engineers, analytics teams, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated deployment practices.
• Develop technical documentation, implementation standards, and reusable platform components.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data platforms

Python/SQL

Cloud engineering

Security clearance

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud-based data platforms for enterprise workloads. You will deliver data ingestion, processing, storage, APIs, and automation components to move data securely and efficiently across the environment.

The role blends data engineering with cloud platform engineering, requiring hands-on production-grade implementation, automation, and collaboration with architects, analytics, and security