Remote Staff Data Platform Engineer

Palmetto; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Retirement plans

Job summary

Palmetto is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own the technical design of the data platform powering its products, partners, and AI agents. You will transform data across the customer journey into a single, governed view, ensuring consistent metrics across dashboards, notebooks, and agents.

You will set technical direction, write foundational code, and partner with platform and product teams. AI agents are core consumers of the data platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or platform ownership.
• Deep experience with SQL and Python.
• Experience with modern analytical warehouses and transformation tools.
• Knowledge of dbt or similar frameworks.
• Experience with ETL orchestration and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to design API-like data access and governance.

Responsibilities

• Model the business and build data products from bronze to gold.
• Make data agent-ready with governed definitions and traceability.
• Build governance, compliance readiness, and SOC 2 prep.
• Operate ingestion/orchestration pipelines with CI/CD and observability.
• Collaborate with finance, operations, product and engineering teams.
• Design secure, low-latency data access pathways.
• Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards with templates.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Looker

Hex

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Tools

dbt

SQLMesh

Dataform

Fivetran

Airflow

Snowflake

BigQuery

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Palmetto is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own the technical design of the data platform powering its products, partners, and AI agents. You will transform data across the customer journey into a single, governed view, ensuring consistent metrics across dashboards, notebooks, and agents.

You will set technical direction, write foundational code, and partner with platform and product teams. AI agents are core consumers of the data platform.