Remote Staff Data Platform Engineer - Lakehouse & Iceberg

Affirm; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is building a robust Lakehouse Platform to support scalable analytics across OLTP/OLAP systems. The team focuses on Iceberg, Spark, and Snowflake, delivering secure and cost‑efficient data infrastructure for the company’s analytical needs.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and shaping the technical roadmap while ensuring high reliability and governance across data platforms for multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data infrastructure, or data platform engineering.
• 2+ years of technical leadership responsibilities.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or comparable analytical data warehouses.
• Strong experience with Apache Iceberg, Spark, and cloud-native data lake architectures.
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks, including CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or JVM-based languages for production systems.
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long‑term technical roadmap for Affirms Lakehouse Platform.
• Architect and implement platform capabilities that enable secure, discoverable analytics.
• Design and operate secure, auditable data access across Snowflake and lakehouse platform.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering to evolve data modeling, pipelines, and quality practices.
• Establish best practices for lakehouse operations including schema evolution and partitioning.
• Identify and execute improvements for compute, storage, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, BI, ML, and product teams to translate needs into durable architecture.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in lakehouse tech and governance.
• Mentor engineers and foster an inclusive culture of excellence.

Skills

Lakehouse Platform Expertise

Snowflake Platform Expertise

Data Platform Architecture

Governance and Trust

Analytics Engineering Foundations

Agentic Data Tools

Technical Leadership

Collaboration

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

Spark

Terraform

dbt

Job description

Affirm is building a robust Lakehouse Platform to support scalable analytics across OLTP/OLAP systems. The team focuses on Iceberg, Spark, and Snowflake, delivering secure and cost‑efficient data infrastructure for the company’s analytical needs.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and shaping the technical roadmap while ensuring high reliability and governance across data platforms for multiple stakeholders.