Senior Data Platform Engineer, AI/ML at Scale

Raft; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered healthcare, dental, and视

401(k) and company match

Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidys

Education & training benefits

Generous Referral Bonuses

Job summary

Raft is a U.S.-based defense tech company building data-focused products using open source tools (Kafka, Trino, DuckDB, Superset). Onsite in Tampa, FL or Tacoma, WA with up to 30% travel; citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI clearance required.

You will design and implement large-scale RESTful APIs and frontend features, working across backend and frontend to enable data storytelling. Expect 8+ years backend and 5+ years frontend experience, cloud-native deployments, and working with

Qualifications

• 8+ years building RESTful APIs and taking concepts to implementation.
• 7+ years in frontend frameworks with React + TypeScript/JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend RESTful APIs in Go/Java/Python.
• Collaborate on frontend work to deliver end-to-end features.
• Design scalable software architectures for data-focused products.

Skills

RESTful API design

Go

Java

Python

React/TypeScript

Software architecture

Cloud-native

Docker/Kubernetes

Security+ readiness

Education

STEM background

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Delta Lake

AWS

Azure

Job description

Raft is a U.S.-based defense tech company building data-focused products using open source tools (Kafka, Trino, DuckDB, Superset). Onsite in Tampa, FL or Tacoma, WA with up to 30% travel; citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI clearance required.

You will design and implement large-scale RESTful APIs and frontend features, working across backend and frontend to enable data storytelling. Expect 8+ years backend and 5+ years frontend experience, cloud-native deployments, and working with