Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI/ML & DoD Data Systems

Raft; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) match

PTO and holidays

Education benefits

Tech budget

Job summary

Raft, a U.S.-based defense tech company, is seeking a Senior Engineer to support government clients by building scalable data platforms within the Raft Data Platform. You’ll partner with operators and SMEs to identify use cases, onboard datasets, and deliver new features using industry-standard OSS tools for data engineering.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and on-site work in Dayton, OH, with up to 25% travel to CONUS/OCONUS locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level knowledge of data engineering concepts and platforms.
• Experience with backend data tooling and building data pipelines for large-scale datasets.
• Hands-on knowledge of DoD datasets and transformation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data platform features for government workloads.
• Collaborate with SMEs and stakeholders to onboard datasets and define use cases.
• Develop Proofs-of-Concept to demonstrate feasibility of data platform enhancements.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Kafka

Delta Lake

Data Engineering

DoD datasets

Education

STEM degree (CS/EE/Math)

Tools

Trino

DuckDB

Job description

Raft, a U.S.-based defense tech company, is seeking a Senior Engineer to support government clients by building scalable data platforms within the Raft Data Platform. You’ll partner with operators and SMEs to identify use cases, onboard datasets, and deliver new features using industry-standard OSS tools for data engineering.

The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and on-site work in Dayton, OH, with up to 25% travel to CONUS/OCONUS locations.