Senior Data Platform Engineer – End-to-End Architecture (Remote)

Raydar; United States; On-site; USD 145,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Remote-friendly

Small team ownership

Job summary

Raydar is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to own end-to-end data-pipeline architecture for a lean, high-impact platform team. This IC4 role blends hands-on coding with architectural decision making and mentoring across analytics engineering, data science, and product engineering.

The role focuses on ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers, as well as platform improvements for cost, reliability, and observability. Fully remote within the U.S.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience as a data engineer or data platform engineer.
• Strong, hands-on SQL and Python skills that hold up in a live technical environment.
• Production experience with containerized data infrastructure, including deployment and operational troubleshooting.
• Production experience with a pipeline orchestrator such as Airflow and a cloud data warehouse such as BigQuery.
• A track record of owning pipeline architecture end to end and explaining tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience making sound decisions across freshness, cost, scalability, reliability, and simplicity.
• US work authorization without current or future visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers.
• Design platform improvements for warehouse cost, compute efficiency, access control, reliability, and observability.
• Lead large cross-functional projects and multiple concurrent technical initiatives from design through delivery.
• Build monitoring, testing, and alerting that closes production visibility gaps before failures occur.
• Improve orchestration, CI/CD, data access, and developer experience across the platform.
• Mentor data and analytics engineers and serve as a technical peer on architectural and modeling decisions.
• Build practical AI-powered tooling and automation that creates leverage for the broader team.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Mentoring

Architectural decisions

Tools

Airflow

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Datadog

CI/CD

Job description

Raydar is hiring a Senior Data Engineer II to own end-to-end data-pipeline architecture for a lean, high-impact platform team. This IC4 role blends hands-on coding with architectural decision making and mentoring across analytics engineering, data science, and product engineering.

The role focuses on ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers, as well as platform improvements for cost, reliability, and observability. Fully remote within the U.S.