Senior AI-First Data Platform Engineer - Remote

smartcatplatforminc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly team

Global collaboration hubs

AI-native tooling

Job summary

smartcatplatforminc seeks a senior data platform leader to drive the transition to a cloud-native, streaming-first foundation that serves analytics, automation, and AI agents. You will design AI-ready data assets, semantic layers, and governance across the data stack.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture decisions, and partner with Product, Engineering, GTM, and AI stakeholders in a remote-friendly, AI-native environment with distributed hubs worldwide.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms at scale.
• Strong hands-on skills with Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Python, and SQL.
• Background building AI-ready data assets, semantic layers, and metadata-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with RAG systems, vector databases, knowledge graphs, or enabling AI agents to consume operational data.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and leading architecture decisions across teams.
• Ability to partner effectively with Product, Engineering, GTM, and AI stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of a cloud-native, AI-first data platform, migrating pipelines from batch to near-real-time and streaming architectures.
• Build data products consumable by AI agents, analytics systems, and business users, including semantic layers and metadata management.
• Improve reliability, observability, governance, and performance across the data stack while establishing engineering standards.
• Use AI to accelerate development, testing, documentation, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Enable AI agents to safely query, understand, and act on business data through well-designed interfaces and guardrails.
• Mentor engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and raise the technical bar across the data and analytics organization.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Python

SQL

Job description

smartcatplatforminc seeks a senior data platform leader to drive the transition to a cloud-native, streaming-first foundation that serves analytics, automation, and AI agents. You will design AI-ready data assets, semantic layers, and governance across the data stack.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture decisions, and partner with Product, Engineering, GTM, and AI stakeholders in a remote-friendly, AI-native environment with distributed hubs worldwide.