Senior Data Platform Engineer — Remote/Global

Horizon3; United States; Remote; USD 202,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Growth opportunities

Innovative culture

Hybrid/Remote work

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and own the data platform underpinning critical pipelines across regions. You will expand the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI stack to support analytics and reporting via Tableau and Databricks.

You will bring 7+ years of data engineering or backend experience, strong SQL and Python, and deep knowledge of distributed systems. This role offers hybrid/remote options within the United States.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain business-critical data pipelines, including data ingestion and AWS Glue/Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
• Build and operate core data infrastructure: the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform, deployed across multiple regions.
• Help evaluate and shape our warehouse strategy, including lakehouse platforms such as Databricks.
• Define and evolve event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams, reasoning through batch vs. streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant/multi-region trade-offs.
• Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models.
• Build observability into pipelines and platform components.
• Drive work across producer and consumer teams, communicate clearly, and own outcomes end to end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data architecture

SQL proficiency

Python programming

Data pipelines

Observability

Cross-team collaboration

Production data infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Glue

Spark

Databricks

Redshift

Tableau

SQL

Python

Airflow/Dagster

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and own the data platform underpinning critical pipelines across regions. You will expand the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI stack to support analytics and reporting via Tableau and Databricks.

You will bring 7+ years of data engineering or backend experience, strong SQL and Python, and deep knowledge of distributed systems. This role offers hybrid/remote options within the United States.