Senior Data Platform Engineer for Space Data

Umbra; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD,STD

Vol Life, Critical Illness, Accidental

Hospital Indemnity

Pet Insurance

401k with 3% non-elective company

Stock Options

Free parking

Free lunch in office daily

Job summary

Umbra is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead our data infrastructure design, development, and maintenance for autonomous satellite operations and analytics. You will partner with product and engineering teams to define scalable data systems that support decision-making and experimentation.

The role is on-site in Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA, Arlington, VA, or Reston, VA, with opportunities to influence data governance, reliability, and security across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or similar roles.
• Strong SQL, data warehousing, lakehouse and analytics engineering.
• Python and SQL data pipeline development with CI/CD.
• Experience with Omni Analytics, Tableau, Power BI.
• Experience with Databricks and Hadoop ecosystem.
• dbt or similar data transformation framework.
• Cloud platforms AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to process, model, and analyze large volumes of data.
• Develop and optimize data models, data warehouses, lakehouse patterns, and dbt transformations to support internal analytics, ML and decision-making.
• Build and operate analytics and data platform capabilities using Databricks, dbt, Omni Analytics, and cloud services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and ensure data quality, reliability, performance.
• Implement best practices for data governance, reliability, security, compliance, lineage, cost management, and observability.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data warehousing

Lakehouse architecture

Analytics engineering

Python

CI/CD

Omni Analytics

Tableau

Power BI

Databricks

Hadoop ecosystem

dbt

Cloud platforms

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

New Relic

Splunk

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Data Science

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Omni Analytics

Tableau

Power BI

Hadoop (HDFS, Spark, HBase)

AWS

GCP

Azure

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

New Relic

Splunk

Job description

Umbra is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead our data infrastructure design, development, and maintenance for autonomous satellite operations and analytics. You will partner with product and engineering teams to define scalable data systems that support decision-making and experimentation.

The role is on-site in Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA, Arlington, VA, or Reston, VA, with opportunities to influence data governance, reliability, and security across platforms.