Senior Data Platform Engineer

VIA; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K with employer match

Parental leave and ramp-back program

Family forming benefit

Flexible vacation policy

Remote work options with offices

Mentorship and growth programs

Wellness advisor

Job summary

VIA is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to unify data engineering with DevOps, focusing on secure cloud data infrastructure, real-time and batch pipelines, and robust observability. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to scale and govern data while enabling AI-driven decision-making.

You’ll design multi-tenant data schemas, deploy IaC, and champion CI/CD across the platform, ensuring reliability and performance in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a data-driven role
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in science, mathematics, engineering, or data-driven field
• Strong Python scripting and automation
• Proven experience architecting relational & NoSQL schemas
• Expertise in performance, indexing, and query tuning
• Experience with AWS/Azure data services and IaC
• Hands-on with Kubernetes & container observability
• Experience with Dagster or Airflow for data orchestration
• Understanding of systems thinking and integration with apps
• Proven CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code deployments

Responsibilities

• Architect and provision secure data infrastructure using IaC
• Develop, deploy, and maintain data pipelines (real-time and batch)
• Build monitoring/alerting for data health and performance
• Troubleshoot database queries, pipelines, and data issues
• Drive data governance, health, and security best practices
• Operationalize AI models; manage versioning, containerization, deployment

Skills

Python

SQL/NoSQL

Data pipelines

Dagster

Apache Airflow

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Git

MLOps

Observability

Data governance

AWS

Azure

RDS/Aurora

Lambda

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in science/engineering

Tools

Dagster

Apache Airflow

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS data services

RDS

Aurora

Lambda

Job description

VIA is making an impact, and so can you.

Headquartered in Boston, VIA provides mission-critical software for secure data exchange and trustworthy AI without compromising speed, simplicity, or resilience. Its military-grade architecture helps defense, public safety agencies, and humanitarian organizations use AI while maintaining control of sensitive, distributed data even in contested or offline environments.

Learn more: solvewithvia.com.

An impressive mission requires an equally impressive Senior Data Platform Engineer.

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer at VIA, you'll bring together core data engineering skills with an interest in the DevOps side of things: Kubernetes, container insights, and resource allocation, alongside a solid understanding of our application logic, database queries, and data pipeline orchestration. Your day-to-day will include supporting application workflows and pipeline reliability, and helping us stay ahead of the scaling and observability challenges that come with growth.

You will build the foundation that empowers our customers to harness AI for human-centric, data-driven decision-making. You will work cross-functionally with a high-performing team of data professionals, developers, DevOps, and Client Delivery specialists who are already pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI.

Individuals who excel in this role are motivated by solving complex data infrastructure and reliability challenges, holding a high bar for pipeline observability and system performance, and enjoy operating at the intersection of application logic and infrastructure. Are you ready to join us?

Read more about our mission, team, and values here.

In this role, you will:

• Architect & provision secure data infrastructure: Design, provision, and maintain cloud-based data storage and platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Helm), optimizing schemas for multi-tenant environments while ensuring security and a high standard of trust and transparency
• Engineer and deploy data pipelines: Develop, deploy, and maintain resilient pipelines for both real-time streaming and batch processing, with deployment (CI/CD, IaC) as a top priority, ensuring seamless data flow from raw ingestion to production-ready applications
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure: Build monitoring and alerting systems to track data health and system performance, proactively identifying and remediating bottlenecks
• Support application workflows: Partner directly with the application team to troubleshoot database queries, pipeline logic, and data-related application issues as they come up
• Drive data governance and best practices: Contribute across teams to recommend tools, processes, and best practices for maintaining data health, integrity, and security
• Operationalize AI models: Support AI operations (MLOps) by managing versioning, containerization, and deployment of AI models

Requirements

What you will bring to this role:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in a data-driven role
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in science, mathematics, engineering, or a data-driven field
• Core engineering: A strong foundation in Python (or equivalent) for scripting, automation, and tooling across the data platform
• Data architecture: Proven experience architecting scalable relational and non-relational (SQL/NoSQL) schemas
• Performance engineering: Expertise in maximizing system performance through advanced query tuning, strategic indexing, and execution plan analysis to eliminate technical bottlenecks
• Cloud & platform infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS data services (e.g., RDS, Aurora, Lambda) or Azure equivalents, plus infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and/or Helm) for provisioning and deploying data infrastructure
• Container orchestration & monitoring: Working knowledge of container build and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and container-level observability (e.g., resource allocation, cluster health, container insights)
• Data orchestration: Experience building resilient pipelines using frameworks such as Dagster or Apache Airflow
• Systems thinking: A strong understanding of how data infrastructure integrates into the broader application architecture
• Professional standards: Experience with modern software development practices, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code, with a demonstrated track record of deploying production systems

What does it take to be a successful VIAneer?

• Self-motivated and passionate about leaving everything they touch better than how they found it
• Firm believers that people should love what they do and are eager to build a culture that enables them to do their best work
• Creative problem solvers who respectfully challenge the status quo in the pursuit of excellence
• People who lead discussions with curiosity and value diverse perspectives
• Eager to explore new ideas, understand the power of feedback, and constantly seek opportunities to grow and develop their skills
• Strong team players who thrive in collaborative environments and celebrate the success of others

Benefits

What can VIA do for you?

VIA offers competitive benefits, flexible work options, and individualized mentoring and growth opportunities. Here are just a few of our VIAneers’ favorite perks:

• Compensation:
  • This role offers a salary range of $145,000 - $190,000 USD per year
  • 401K plan with up to 5% employer contribution
• Health: A fully funded, top-tier health benefits plan, including vision and dental coverage, fully covered from day one, for your whole family
• Family Support: Up to 24 weeks paid parental leave, a 4-week paid ramp-back program, and a $10K family forming benefit (covering fertility treatments, adoption, and surrogacy)
• Time off: Flexible Vacation Policy with no set annual limit or accrual period, Summer Fridays, and an extended holiday period in December
• Remote work: Ability to enjoy the best of both worlds with flexibility to work from home as needed, as well as access to three well-located offices, designed for collaboration and stocked with everything you could need
  • Opportunities to work remotely from eligible locations for up to 2 months per year
• Growth: Individualized growth opportunities, including internal and external mentorship panels, custom goals and feedback sessions, and/or access to learning and development programs, including VIA’s unrivaled leadership program
  • A dedicated wellness advisor to help you navigate the programs and opportunities available at VIA
• Transit: Benefits to support commuting costs
• Connection: In-person events to foster team bonding and collaboration across different teams

Read more about our benefits and perks here.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.