Senior Data Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is building a real-time, petabyte-scale data backbone that ingests, unifies, and serves data for private, personalized experiences across platforms. You will be the Principal Data Architect and Manager, defining architecture and leading the data-engineering team to ship scalable, low-latency pipelines.

You will guide technical vision, drive critical architectural decisions, and mentor senior ICs and managers while delivering on ambitious roadmaps in a privacy-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• MS Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Proven experience leading engineers, hiring, performance management and mentorship.
• Track record shipping petabyte-scale, low-latency data platforms in production.
• Deep cloud expertise with AWS S3 and data lakehouse patterns.
• Experience with entity resolution, knowledge graphs, and multimodal data pipelines.
• Experience with LLMs and embedding models in data pipelines and serving.
• Strong streaming knowledge with Kafka or equivalent and Spark/Flink.
• Data modeling for large-scale ingest, retrieval, and analytics; governance and observability.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end architecture of a real-time, petabyte-scale data backbone.
• Lead and grow the data engineering team, mentor engineers and managers.
• Drive roadmap from design to production, balancing technical vision with delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders across business units.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Engineering

Platform Engineering

Cloud (AWS)

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Python

Java

Scala

LLMs

Embeddings

Vector search

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Kubernetes

Education

MS Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS S3

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Socket.dev is building a real-time, petabyte-scale data backbone that ingests, unifies, and serves data for private, personalized experiences across platforms. You will be the Principal Data Architect and Manager, defining architecture and leading the data-engineering team to ship scalable, low-latency pipelines.

You will guide technical vision, drive critical architectural decisions, and mentor senior ICs and managers while delivering on ambitious roadmaps in a privacy-conscious environment.