Senior Data Platform Engineer

Svitla Systems; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or office

Competitive compensation

Performance appraisals

Flexible workspace

Bonuses for talks

Generous time off

Learning programs

Tech webinars

Corporate activities

Supportive team

Job summary

Svitla Systems is seeking a Senior Production Data-Platform Engineer with hands-on experience in data-platform engineering to help migrate and modernize client workloads. You will work across Snowflake, Kafka, and AWS, focusing on DevOps practices, secure access, and scalable architectures.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in a senior role, strong scripting and SQL skills, and proven ability to operate across development, staging, and production environments.

Qualifications

• Senior data platform engineer with 3+ years in a senior role and hands-on production experience.
• Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.
• Production experience with Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with a DevOps focus.
• Deep Snowflake and AWS experience with Kafka knowledge, or deep Kafka/Confluent with Snowflake knowledge.
• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, staging, and production.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.
• Experience with least-privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Help migrate client’s acquired infrastructure and data-platform workloads to client’s infrastructure.
• Migrate data-platform infrastructure to AWS us-east-2 and ensure connectivity and deployment prerequisites.
• Enable secure, governed access to data for data-platform consumers and downstream systems.
• Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and practices to align with client standards.
• Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data-platform migration and operations across stage and production.
• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, runbooks and cross-team migration coordination.
• Use Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes to deliver repeatable changes.

Skills

Python

Bash

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

Kafka/Confluent

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

Requirements

• Experienced Senior specialist with more than 3 years in a Senior role with hands‑on experience in production data‑platform engineering, with a platform/DevOps‑leaning background and strong data experience.

• Strong Python, bash, and SQL skills.

• Production experience with both Snowflake and Confluent/Kafka, with a focus on DevOps and operations.

• Deep experience in one and working knowledge of the other is acceptable, in either combination:

  • Deep Snowflake and AWS experience, with working Kafka knowledge (topics, connectors, schemas).

  • Deep Kafka/Confluent and AWS experience, with working Snowflake knowledge.

• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, stage, and production environments.

• Strong troubleshooting, incident‑response, testing, documentation, and cross‑team communication skills.

• Experience with least‑privilege access, change control, secrets handling, and secure operational practices.

Will be a plus

• Experience with Apache Spark and Hadoop/Hive/HQL, including modernizing or migrating legacy workloads.

• Experience with Snowpark, dbt alternatives, AWS Glue, Monte Carlo, or other data‑quality and catalog tools.

• Experience migrating legacy Airflow, Hadoop, or Hive workloads to cloud‑native or managed platforms.

• Experience working through a company migration or acquisition and aligning systems to a new organization’s standards.

• Familiarity with Snowflake-to‑Iceberg or Snowflake-to‑data‑lake migration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Help migrate our client’s acquired infrastructure and data‑platform workloads to our client’s infrastructure.

• Help move data‑platform infrastructure and workloads to AWS us-east-2 (USE2), including the required connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites.

• Enable secure, governed access to the acquired data for our client’s data‑platform consumers and downstream systems.

• Modernize the data‑platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices to align with our client’s standards.

• Support Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and data‑platform infrastructure migration and operations across stage and production.

• Participate in production troubleshooting, incident response, documentation, runbook creation, and cross‑team migration coordination.

• Use Terraform/IaC, GitLab, monitoring, and documented processes to deliver repeatable and auditable changes.

We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.

• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.

• Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.

• Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.

• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.

• Generous time off, including vacation, national holidays, sick leaves, and family days.

• Personalized learning programs tailored to your interests and skill development.

• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.

• Regular corporate online activities.

• Awesome team and a friendly, supportive community!