Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer - Remote US

Lyric; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms on AWS (Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, Snowflake). You will optimize performance, security, and cost, while enabling self-service data access across teams.

Join a distributed data group within engineering operations, mentor engineers, and help drive on-call readiness and incident response. Remote-US base with a highly competitive base salary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cloud Data Infrastructure or related roles.
• Hands-on with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena).
• Strong PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake experience.
• SQL and scripting (Python, Shell).
• Terraform and GitLab for CI/CD automation.
• Experience optimizing high-throughput data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS (Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, Snowflake).
• Operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration.
• Ensure reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms.
• Promote best practices in data modeling, observability, IaC, and CI/CD.
• Support and scale distributed data systems (PostgreSQL/Aurora, Snowflake, Kafka, caching).
• Collaborate with application, analytics, and AI teams for self-service data access.
• Participate in design reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response when required.

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms on AWS (Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, Snowflake). You will optimize performance, security, and cost, while enabling self-service data access across teams.

Join a distributed data group within engineering operations, mentor engineers, and help drive on-call readiness and incident response. Remote-US base with a highly competitive base salary.