Senior Data Platform Engineer

Raise; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is building an AI-enabled loyalty platform in Chicago that connects data across payments, CRM and analytics to fuel campaigns and machine learning. You will own the data platform's architecture, development and operation, delivering reliable datasets for analytics and AI-powered applications.

You’ll work hands-on with no direct reports, designing, coding, testing and operating production systems, making technical decisions and ensuring dependable delivery as usage grows.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of relevant data engineering or data platform experience.
• At least two years owning a production data platform, including architecture decisions.
• Strong SQL and programming skills, with the ability to write production code.
• Deep experience with analytical databases, data modeling, query optimization.
• Experience with API integrations, change data capture, batch and streaming ingestion.
• Practical knowledge of observability, automated testing, incident recovery and data security.
• Ability to work independently and translate business needs into dependable systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse, commerce or payments data, transformation tooling and experiment instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data architecture that balances reliability, performance and cost.
• Develop and maintain integrations across payment platforms, CRMs, analytics tools and operational databases.
• Build dependable batch and streaming pipelines with monitoring, automated quality checks and recovery capabilities.
• Create consistent data models and clearly defined metrics that teams can trust.
• Establish secure access, sensitive-data controls, documentation and data lineage.
• Work with product, finance and AI engineers to deliver reliable datasets for analytics and machine learning.
• Diagnose production issues, improve query performance and keep systems maintainable as usage grows.

Skills

SQL

Production coding

Data modeling

Query optimization

Change data capture

Batch & streaming ingestion

Observability

Automated testing

Incident recovery

Data security

API integrations

Data platform ownership

Tools

ClickHouse

Transformation tooling

Identity resolution

Experiment instrumentation

Job description

Raise is building an AI-enabled loyalty platform in Chicago that connects data across payments, CRM and analytics to fuel campaigns and machine learning. You will own the data platform's architecture, development and operation, delivering reliable datasets for analytics and AI-powered applications.

You’ll work hands-on with no direct reports, designing, coding, testing and operating production systems, making technical decisions and ensuring dependable delivery as usage grows.