Senior Data Platform Engineer — Cloud & Observability Lead

Murmuration; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Murmuration is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to build opinionated data infrastructure across engineering teams. You will design, deploy, and optimize cloud data stores, enforce best practices, and create reusable infrastructure with strong operational visibility.

The role rewards deep technical judgment and collaborative leadership in a fast-paced civic-tech environment. You will collaborate across data, product, design, and partner success to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable data

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering with data specialization.
• Experience driving secure coding practices and data privacy.
• Strong collaboration with product, data science, and R&D teams.
• Experience using AI as a daily assistant with judgement.

Responsibilities

• Define guidelines for data access and storage; champion best practices.
• Build reusable infrastructure as code to enable engineers.
• Lead by example; improve data tools and playbooks.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leads.
• Champion secure data practices across the organization.

Skills

Data Platform

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Databases

SQL & NoSQL

Observability

Security

Mentoring

Cross-Functional

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Dagster

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Murmuration is seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to build opinionated data infrastructure across engineering teams. You will design, deploy, and optimize cloud data stores, enforce best practices, and create reusable infrastructure with strong operational visibility.

The role rewards deep technical judgment and collaborative leadership in a fast-paced civic-tech environment. You will collaborate across data, product, design, and partner success to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable data