Senior Data Platform Engineer – Remote, Shape the Platform

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

Health, Dental, Vision, Life & Disabil

401K with match

Holidays + PTO

Internal advancement

Job summary

PerfectServe is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect to shape the detailed architecture for a unified data platform across our product portfolio. You will own the implementation and integration design and set engineering standards for the team.

You will collaborate with an architecture team, mentor engineers, and ensure data models and pipelines meet real business needs. This is a high-impact, platform-building role at PerfectServe.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience building and operating cloud data platforms, ideally including a design from scratch.
• Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and recognizing expensive-to-change choices.
• Deep SQL and strong command of a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks).
• Knowledge of a transformation framework such as dbt and project structuring.
• ELT and change-data-capture across relational sources.
• Experience with AWS—read replicas, object storage, multi-region data movement.
• Dimensional/medallion modeling applied to real data.
• Workflow orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect) and data quality testing.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation design across the platform—ingestion, modeling, surfaces.
• Shape architecture from direction with the architecture team.
• Own integration design across production source systems.
• Build ingestion pipelines from those systems.
• Model raw data into business-ready datasets with defined metrics.
• Set engineering standards including data quality and testing.
• Partner with platform/operations teams on safe extraction from production databases.
• Work with data consumers to ensure built solutions answer real questions.
• Mentor data engineers and influence their work.

Skills

Cloud data platforms

Decision making under uncertainty

SQL proficiency

dbt

ELT/CDR experience

AWS

Dimensional modeling

Workflow orchestration (Airflow)

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Job description

PerfectServe is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect to shape the detailed architecture for a unified data platform across our product portfolio. You will own the implementation and integration design and set engineering standards for the team.

You will collaborate with an architecture team, mentor engineers, and ensure data models and pipelines meet real business needs. This is a high-impact, platform-building role at PerfectServe.