Senior Data Platform Engineer - Lead, Data Infrastructure

Mozilla; United States; Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonus plans

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

100% vesting retirement contributions

Wellness days

Holidays + birthday

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus

Life/AD&D, disability, EAP

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer to help build Mozilla's data platform. This role blends data engineering and data platform leadership across Data Platform Engineering and Data Engineering teams.

You will design and optimize systems for multi-terabyte daily data processing, evaluate new technologies, and mentor engineers while partnering with Data Science to support data abstractions and evolving data products.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of combined experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Data Science, or Data Analytics.
• Deep expertise in Data Engineering and Data Platform Engineering.
• Experience with data tooling in GCP, AWS, or Azure (Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow or similar).
• Experience with Looker, Fivetran, Kubernetes / GKE, Airflow / Cloud Composer, and Terraform.
• Advanced coding skills in SQL and Python.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience as a tech lead or data engineering/ platform manager.
• Commitment to Mozilla values: welcoming differences, relationship-minded, responsible participation, grit.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve systems to process data at scale (tens of terabytes per day).
• Evaluate new technologies and set best-practice standards.
• Craft and improve workflows in GCP using Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, GKE, and Airflow.
• Drive cross-functional projects with stakeholders across Mozilla (Data Science, Product, Legal, Policy, Engineering).
• Mentor teammates and develop engineering best practices across the Data Organization.
• Work with Data Science to design and implement useful data abstractions.
• Address the evolving needs of active Data Products.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

SQL

Python

Tools

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Dataflow

Looker

Fivetran

Kubernetes / GKE

Airflow / Cloud Composer

Terraform

Job description

Mozilla is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer to help build Mozilla's data platform. This role blends data engineering and data platform leadership across Data Platform Engineering and Data Engineering teams.

You will design and optimize systems for multi-terabyte daily data processing, evaluate new technologies, and mentor engineers while partnering with Data Science to support data abstractions and evolving data products.