Senior Data Platform Engineer — Remote/Hybrid

Raft; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered healthcare

401(k) with company match

PTO + holidays

Remote, hybrid, and flexible work

Job summary

Raft is building a data platform for the DoD to enhance operators' awareness of critical data. This role will involve hands-on collaboration with a team to enrich, render, and present data as a common operational picture for time-critical decisions.

The Senior Engineer will work with Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, and Kubernetes, delivering scalable data applications and ETL pipelines. On-site in Tampa, FL or Dayton, OH with travel up to 25% is possible.

Qualifications

• Three-plus years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements.
• Experience or knowledge of service mesh technologies, such as Istio.
• Experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure.
• Experience in automation languages like Python or GoLang.
• Experience in data management including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage.
• Experience with building and releasing software in cloud-native environments.
• Experience using a variety of package managers/dependency managers including Maven, Gradle, and NPM.
• Deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns.
• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft.

Responsibilities

• Build data infrastructure and platforms using diverse data frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams.
• Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations.
• Leverage software engineering principles to architect, develop, and implement large scale data applications.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Kubernetes

Java/Scala

Python/GoLang

ETL/data mgmt

Cloud experience

Data governance

Security+ readiness

Tools

Kafka

Kafka Streams

Pinot

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Loki

Maven

Gradle

NPM

Helm Charts

Job description

Raft is building a data platform for the DoD to enhance operators' awareness of critical data. This role will involve hands-on collaboration with a team to enrich, render, and present data as a common operational picture for time-critical decisions.

The Senior Engineer will work with Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, and Kubernetes, delivering scalable data applications and ETL pipelines. On-site in Tampa, FL or Dayton, OH with travel up to 25% is possible.