Senior Data Platform Architect — Scale Global Data

Nubank; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 270,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Competitive compensation

Learning & development support

Office cadence: Palo Alto 2x per week

Job summary

Nubank seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Data) to serve as the technical cornerstone of its data ecosystem. You will own domain data infrastructure, tackle complex challenges, and set the standard for data quality as we scale globally.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural patterns, and collaborate with product teams to empower analysts, ML engineers, and leaders in making informed business decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive technical leadership across large-scale data initiatives.
• Expertise in distributed systems using Spark, Flink or Kafka.
• Mastery in designing scalable data solutions for complex problems.
• Strategic acumen linking technical decisions to business goals.
• Proactive problem solving with high autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Architect data platforms and transformation patterns at scale.
• Define long-term roadmaps for data infrastructure and strategy.
• Lead data contracts and schema evolution for reliability.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks and improve observability of pipelines.
• Advise senior leadership on strategic data investments.
• Mentor engineers and foster data-driven decision making.
• Develop reference architectural patterns for the company.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed Systems

Systems Design

Strategic Acumen

Problem Solving

Tools

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Cloud Data Warehousing

Job description

Nubank seeks a Staff Software Engineer (Data) to serve as the technical cornerstone of its data ecosystem. You will own domain data infrastructure, tackle complex challenges, and set the standard for data quality as we scale globally.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural patterns, and collaborate with product teams to empower analysts, ML engineers, and leaders in making informed business decisions.